I want to like this article, I really do. After all, I support Dr. Potts’s main goal: making birth control pills available over-the-counter, without a prescription. It’s a good goal. But he’s dead wrong on one issue. So why isn’t the pill sold next to aspirin in every pharmacy or gas station? Commercial greed and [...]
This story (Ban Sought on Cold Medicine for Very Young – New York Times) made my pharmacist wife shake her head.
It seems more than a little overkill to ban an entire class of medicines just because a few doctors start jumping up and down and yelling ”There’s no proof that it works! No proof!”
And look …