Sentence examples similar to counter status from inspiring English sources

It meets all F.D.A. criteria for over-the-counter status.

The president of Barr, Dr. Carole Ben-Maimon, said it favored over-the-counter status.

Its chief executive, Norman Proulx, said he would decide whether to seek over-the-counter status depending on the Plan B case.

The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to consider whether some prescription drugs should be changed to over-the-counter status (news article, June 28) is overdue.

For example, it took the US Food and Drug Administration FDAA) years to approve emergency contraception – also known as Plan B – for over-the-counter status.

President Bush's choice for F.D.A. commissioner, Lester Crawford, claims that the F.D.A. decision on Plan B emergency contraception's over-the-counter status will "not be based on politics".

In the years since, a range of medicines, from Rogaine for hair loss to Aleve for pain, have switched from prescription to over-the-counter status.

The level of support for switching Plan B emergency contraception from prescription to over-the-counter status is unprecedented and far outweighs the opposition.

The latest example of this hypocrisy is the Food and Drug Administration's delay in approving over-the-counter status for the morning-after contraceptive pill.

Claritin is available in other countries without a prescription, and Blue Cross of California has petitioned the drug agency to give it over-the-counter status.

Your May 7 editorial praising the switch of Claritin from prescription to over-the-counter status does not mention the effects such switches have on patients seeking medical attention for serious illnesses.