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ALL medications, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, and even herbal remedies, have the potential to ...

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The Texas Senate late Wednesday passed a bill that would make ivermectin — a drug used mostly in this country to treat livestock for parasites — available to Texans without a prescription. The bill ...

A new study suggests that the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the U.S. is reaching people who previously had little or no access to contraception. Researchers at Oregon Health & ...

A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% ...

AUSTIN — Ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug commonly used for livestock but gaining in popularity for human ailments, will be available from Texas pharmacies without a prescription under legislation ...

In much of the world, “the Pill” has long been available on retail shelves, alongside vitamins and aspirin and the like. Not so in the U.S.—until very recently, when the Food and Drug Administration ...