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Americans may soon be able to get cholesterol-lowering medications and other widely used prescription drugs without seeing a doctor, a first step in what could amount to sweeping changes to how patients access treatments for chronic conditions.
The Food and Drug Administration in a draft guideline on Tuesday outlined how such a status, which the agency said could help lower health-care costs, would work. Patients could answer questions on a mobile-phone app to help determine whether they should be able to access a medication without a prescription.
"Our hope is that the steps we're taking to advance this new, more modern framework will contribute to lower costs for our health care system overall and provide greater efficiency and empowerment for consumers by increasing the availability of certain products that would otherwise be available only by prescription," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.
Order your drugs from a smartphone app.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:22PM (2 children)
This is Australia son. In order to save a few hundred people from killing themselves using codeine you must have a script. If a doctor will write you one. If you are willing to store your medical data in the government myhealth record system so they can sell the info to companies. Suck it up princess. Take 2 asprin and slap yourself in the face in the morning.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:32PM (1 child)
Wow, that sounded awesome. Almost as awesome as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeYVIWz99I [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @04:10AM
Our pollies are awesome
they just want to protect us
really