Category Archives: OTC Switches

How a Watch Can Result in More OTC Switches

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Mark Senak

Remember when your phone was just a phone?  You flipped it open and made a call.  It also may have told you the time, but you primarily used it for talking to people.  Today you actually use it in ways … Continue reading →

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Can Technology Usher in New Era of OTCs?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Mark Senak

As many long time readers know from earlier postings about this topic, when I step on my bathroom scale, it records my weight and sends it to my iPad.  I have a blood pressure cuff that hooks up that very … Continue reading →

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What Does an Evolving OTC Environment Mean?

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Mark Senak

Once upon a time, it was quite common for drugs to switch their status from prescription to over-the-counter (OTC) making them much more accessible to people by means of ability to purchase and cost.  Allergy medications and heartburn treatments saw … Continue reading →

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Are OTCs Just O – as in Over?

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Mark Senak

In the 1990s the number of drugs that switched from Rx status to Over-the-Counter (OTC) was quite high and the Non-prescription Drugs Advisory Committee (NDAC) was having a lot of meetings to consider switches of several heartburn remedies, allergy medications … Continue reading →

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Another OTC Attempt for Mevacor

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Mark Senak

In July of 2000, two companies tried to take statins from RX to OTC.  The first was Bristol Myers Squibb attempting to switch Pravachol and the other was Merck trying to switch Mevacor.  Today, there is a Federal Register notice … Continue reading →

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