FDA Advisors Say Greater Insight Needed On Self-Selection Of OTC Statins
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
More information from "real world" experiences on how consumers make OTC selections may be needed to pull off a successful Rx-to-OTC switch of a statin
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