Pfizer to offer cold medicine without ingredient to make meth
21689
December 22, 2004 - Pfizer Incorporated plans to release a new version of Sudafed that eliminates an ingredient used to produce the highly addictive drug methamphetamine.
579862
Drug-using prisoners may be given clean needles under a scheme being considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). The service has confirmed it is considering handing out kits to inmates as part of a harm-reduction programme.
477456
Opium poppies can provide useful pharmaceuticals without making the addictive compounds in heroin and opium, an international team of scientists has shown.
578666
By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Sep. 11--Q -- I was getting some Children's Motrin at Wal-Mart, and I had to pick it up at the pharmacists' counter, which I understand because of the laws against the manufacture of methamphetamines.
143381
Plans are being considered to make an antibiotic - for eyes - available without prescription at pharmacies.
486817
Alpharma Inc. ALO.N on Friday began  selling a cheaper generic version of Pfizer Inc.'s PFE.N  epilepsy drug Neurontin without waiting for a court ruling on  Pfizer's request to block the copycat medicine.
768611
Drug stores will have to start locking up common cold medicines that contain chemicals used to make methamphetamine and limiting sales of those medicines to two at a time under a bill Gov.
288586
Pfizer Inc. said on Monday the U.S.  Food and Drug Administration has approved use of its Geodon  schizophrenia drug to treat mania associated with bipolar  disorder.
622202
British pharmacy chain Boots will begin a trial program on Valentine's Day to offer men Viagra without a prescription.
603038
Pfizer (PFE :NYSE - news - research) Monday said federal regulars have approved its atypical antipsychotic drug for new uses. Specifically, the drug, Geodon, was okayed for the treatment of acute bipolar mania including manic and mixed episodes.
56039
The Food and Drug Administrationâs proposed rules would allow drug and device makers to provide doctors with medical journal articles about product uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A.
766694
Dr. Ian Paul offers advice and analysis about recent FDA warnings that cold medication may not be safe for young children.
111899
WASHINGTON -- A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its antiretrovirals from the World Health Organization's list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment.
448206
Got some leftover drugs -- the kind that someone else might want to use, such as painkillers or stimulants? Wrap them up in used kitty litter or other pet droppings, the government advises.
237444
The Food and Drug Administration will consider whether one of the oldest of the cholesterol-lowering drugs, Mevacor, can be sold without a prescription.
112476
It may soon be possible to take medication in a gel form rather than having to swallow a tablet.
616489
Americans wanting to buy many common cold medicines would have to go to a drug store and ask the pharmacist under legislation introduced on Wednesday aimed at fighting the spread of the illegal stimulant methamphetamine.