Browsing HLS Student Papers by Keyword "prescription"
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A Difficult Proposition: Oral Contraceptives' Switch from Prescription to Over-the-counter Status
(1997)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 ... -
Off-Label Use of Prescription Drugs should be Regulated by the FDA
(2003)The FDA does not subject all uses of drugs to a rigorous approval process. There are many justifications given for this. I lay out a system that divides drug-indication sets into four categories: (1) FDA approved; (2) ... -
Promotion of Unapproved Uses of Approved Drugs and Devices: An Analysis under the First Amendment
(2000)This paper seeks (1) to provide the background necessary to understand current commercial speech jurisprudence; (2) to explore the First Amendment analysis in recent cases against FDA; (3) to examine the landscape of food ... -
Sweetening the Bitter Pill: Rx to OTC Switches Via a Third Class of Drugs
(1995)The United States faces a health care crisis in the years ahead. Spiraling costs are quickly outpacing the rate of inflation. Many people do not feel the immediate pressure as the true cost of America's health care is borne ...