Antibiotics Sold Without Prescriptions
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In many Hispanic communities across the United States, people can buy antibiotics as easily as aspirin, with no prescription and no questions asked, new research suggests.
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Federal health advisers recommended against over-the-counter sales of a cholesterol drug, saying that patients need medical guidance in treating a condition that has no symptoms and may require drugs for life to stay healthy.
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The Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday that consumers can buy devices to jump-start failing hearts at home without a prescription.
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Companies have 60 days to stop selling unapproved prescription drugs made with quinine and dispensed by the millions each year.
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Few American adults have bought prescription drugs via the Internet, despite rising drug costs and increased pressure to import cheaper drugs from abroad, according to a new study released on Sunday.
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NEW YORK - Only 4 percent of Americans have ever used the Internet to buy prescription drugs - and even fewer do so through foreign pharmacies - despite Web sites maintained by a handful of states to help citizens import medicines more cheaply from Canada, a new study finds.    A majority - 62 percent - believe drugs bought online are less safe than those purchased from a local pharmacy, accepting the federal government's stated concerns in opposing drug imports, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a report Sunday...
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Few American adults have bought  prescription drugs via the Internet, despite rising drug costs  and increased pressure to import cheaper drugs from abroad,  according to a new study released on Sunday.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is concerned that Illinois&#39; plan to help residents buy prescription medications from the United Kingdom may open the door to counterfeit drugs from other countries that have less-stringent drug safeguards.
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(HealthDay News) - Antibiotics are safe and effective medications prescribed to treat bacterial infections.
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Description: A government task force is recommending against allowing people to import prescription drugs from other nations. The task force says it would be exceedingly difficult to guarantee that drugs imported
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Relatively few people appear to be taking advantage of a new state law that allows them to purchase up to 20 hypodermic syringes without a prescription
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Life & style: Many pamphlets for patients at GP surgeries have no NHS authorisation. Rather, they are put out by companies promoting products
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Canadian pharmacies must stop exporting huge amounts of prescription drugs to the United States and elsewhere or Canada will face domestic shortages, a coalition of groups representing pharmacies, patients, and seniors has warned.
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The ever-increasing number of medicines available without a prescription has been a godsend for many Americans. Consumers can now gain access to treatments for ills ranging from
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Regulators would get more authority over drugs sold without a prescription under a bill by three Democrats.
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Canada&#39;s health minister says this country cannot &quot;be the drug store of the United States.&quot;. Ujjal Dosanjh&#39;s warning comes as several states are pushing to buy low-cost prescription drugs north of the border.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - U.S. advisers are set to decide  on Friday whether they will recommend approval for Merck & Co.  Inc.'s plan to sell a cholesterol-lowering medicine on  drugstore shelves without a prescription.