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 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...