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Controlling Contraception: The Case for Over-the-Counter Availability of Nonemergency Oral Contraceptives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently categorizes nonemergency oral contraceptives as prescription-only instead of nonprescription, or over-the-counter, drugs.
Wright, Sarah
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Stem Cells Intended for Cosmetic Use Only: Regulation in Belgium, Europe and the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The central question in this paper is whether it is wise to assume that cosmetics are not hazardous, especially in the light of the stem cell hype. Some cosmetics contain stem cell extracts or claim to influence the stem cells in the skin.
Panis, Sarah
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A Reconciliation between the Consumer Price Index and the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index [PDF]

open access: yes
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) prepares the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), and the Bureau of Economic Analysis prepares the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) chain-type price index.
Brian C. Moyer   +2 more
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From Tanning Accessory to Health Necessity: History of the OTC Sunscreen Monograph in Light of the Sunscreen Revolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
On August 27, 2007 the FDA published a Proposed Amendment to the Final Monograph for Over-the-Counter Sunscreen Drug Products. The proposed regulations marks major progress in the regulation of sunscreen products, because it includes, for the first time,
Matlack, Sarah
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The Potential Success of the F.D.A.’S New Paradigm Based on Community Pharmacists’ Opinons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
For the past 40 years the F. D. A. (Food and Drug Administration) has considered creating a third class of drugs in the United States of America that would be a pharmacist-only class which could only be sold with the approval of a pharmacist.
Brown, Anna Blair
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Spartan Daily, March 24, 2004 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Volume 122, Issue 38https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9973/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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A Difficult Proposition: Oral Contraceptives' Switch from Prescription to Over-the-counter Status [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The choice between maintaining oral contraceptives at their current prescription drug status or switching the drugs to over-the-counter status, like so many other decisions in Food and Drug Law, has as much to do with science, as it does with politics ...
Dekhtyar, Ada
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Medications and Falls [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Educational Objectives: 1. To describe potential causes of falls and ways to prevent them. 2. To illustrate how medications can contribute to an increased risk of falls and recommend strategies for reducing this ...
Slattum, Patricia W.
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Itinerant vending of medicines inside buses in Nigeria: vending strategies, dominant themes and medicine-related information provided

open access: yesPharmacy Practice, 2011
Objectives: To determine if a pharmacist assisted psychiatric clinic would improve adherence to medications and quality of life over 6 months. The primary study endpoints were the change from baseline in Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS), Brief ...
Yusuff KB, Wassi Sanni A
doaj  

An Alternative Measure of Core Inflation [PDF]

open access: yes
We combine the ideas of the trimmed mean and the Edgeworth index to construct an alternative measure of core inflation named “Trim of most volatile components (TMVC)”. At each point of time this measure trims away the components of the price index, which
Michael Pedersen
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