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Article: SCHERING PUSHES OVER-THE-COUNTER CLARITIN
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2002
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SCHERING PUSHES OVER-THE-COUNTER CLARITIN
By LEWIS KRAUSKOPF, STAFF WRITER
Date: 03-09-2002, Saturday
Section: BUSINESS
Edition: All Editions -- Late, Early
In a gambit to retain its key franchise, Schering-Plough Corp. plans
to make the best-selling allergy pill, Claritin, available directly
to
consumers in drug stores later this year.
The Kenilworth-based drug maker said Friday that the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration accepted for review its application to switch
all
versions of Claritin to over-the-counter, rather than prescription,
status -- an about face from last May when the company objected to
a
health insurer's bid to compel Claritin and two other ...