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: 2) by Subsentient on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:39PM (4 children)
Whoever keeps writing these is probably a serial killer or belongs to a demented cult.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:23PM (3 children)
And there is zero effort, NONE, by the staff of this place to get rid of them (the stories or the poster) as far as I can tell. THAT'S what really disturbs me...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Thursday July 19 2018, @11:53PM
I mean, it's a very unpleasant read, but I'm alright with it I guess. I don't like permabans. Still wish he'd at least make them funny.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 20 2018, @03:11AM (1 child)
I don't think that's true. I checked in on the IRC channel a while back and they were in the middle of a conversation about how they keep banning him and he keeps coming back.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 20 2018, @03:28AM
We've already seen it's possible to lameness-filter posts. What they need to do is implement a multi-level Bayesian filter and train it on this guy's unique vocabulary and sentence structure. I'm sure that's difficult, but also sure it can be done.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...