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2. Over-the-counter drug - Wikipedia

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   The term over-the-counter (OTC) refers to a medication that can be purchased without a medical prescription. [3] In contrast, prescription drugs require a prescription from a doctor or other health care professional and should only be used by the prescribed individual. [ 4 ]

3. Over-the-counter counseling - Wikipedia

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   Over-the-counter counseling (or OTC counseling) refers to the counseling that a pharmacist may provide on the subject of initiating, modifying, or stopping an over-the-counter (OTC) drug product. [1] OTC counseling requires an assessment of the patient's self-care concerns and drug-related needs. The types of drugs that are involved in OTC ...

4. Prescription drug - Wikipedia

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   A prescription drug (also prescription medication, prescription medicine or prescription-only medication) is a pharmaceutical drug that is permitted to be dispensed only to those with a medical prescription. In contrast, over-the-counter drugs can be obtained without a prescription. The reason for this difference in substance control is the ...

5. Free the Meds: 5 Drugs You Should Be Able To Buy Over the Counter

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   Here are five low-risk drugs that the FDA could make available over the counter today. ... This particular drug has been over-the-counter in the U.K. since 2004 but has failed to get approval for ...

6. FDA Wants To Pull Popular OTC Decongestant Used For Common ...

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   On Thursday, the FDA proposed removing oral phenylephrine from the list of approved active ingredients for over-the-counter (OTC) nasal decongestants, citing concerns over its effectiveness. After ...

7. Off-label use - Wikipedia

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   Off-label use is the use of pharmaceutical drugs for an unapproved indication or in an unapproved age group, dosage, or route of administration. [1] Both prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs (OTCs) can be used in off-label ways, although most studies of off-label use focus on prescription drugs.

8. Column: Despite benefits of over-the-county birth control ...

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   Opill, the first daily, over-the-counter birth control pill, is now available. As with all OTCs, people can buy it without a prescription from a healthcare provider, but is this good or bad? It ...

9. Tablet (pharmacy) - Wikipedia

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   For this reason, producers of drugs such as OTC analgesics wanting to emphasize the strength of their product developed the "caplet", a portmanteau [6] of capsule-shaped tablet, [7] [8] in order to tie this positive association to more efficiently produced tablet pills as well as being an easier-to-swallow shape than the usual disk-shaped tablet.