Schering OTC Claritin Coupons Appearing In Newspapers Dec. 15
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Schering-Plough is offering consumers free samples of Claritin through a new Web site that became operational shortly after the drug's OTC approval
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