The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE1175
February 2, 2004
Emergency Contraception OTC
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Emergency Contraception OTC
February 2, 2004 (Issue: 1175)
An FDA Advisory Committee has recommended over-the-counter (OTC) marketing of Plan B (Barr), an emergency contraceptive "pill pack" that contains two 0.75-mg tablets of levonorgestrel to be taken 12 hours apart (Medical Letter 2000; 42:10). Plan B is...more
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