1.0 Introduction: Aspirin is a common over the counter drug. You will develop an analytical method to monitor this in standard capsules and in urine using fluorescence. The analysis of aspirin by spectroscopic means is a common introductory lab. However, modifying this for use with biological materials requires a deeper understanding. One specific problem arises from the fact that many biologic...

A questionnaire was administered to elite athletes from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the USA representing 10 Olympic sports in order to explore knowledge and understanding of over-the-counter (OTC) medication since the removal of many of these substances from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List, in 2004. Athletes demonstrated limited knowledge and understanding. Around half (5...

BACKGROUND The majority of men find the production of a semen sample an embarrassing and stressful experience. Consequently, the availability of an over-the-counter home sperm test, which would reliably and accurately allow the patient to obtain an assessment of fertility potential at their convenience, would be a major benefit. Our objective was to develop and evaluate a home sperm test that p...

We are, therefore, left to pity the poor panel patient who is being passed over the counter like the dumb, unresisting pound of tea. But if Dr. Cox is right in saying that what takes place is just what happens in private practice, how is the evil going to be remedied by getting rid of the panels ? A panel is merely a list of the patients for whom a doctor has accepted responsibility, and if he ...

The recent series of anthrax attacks has reinforced the importance of biosurveillance systems for the timely detection of epidemics. This paper describes a statistical framework for monitoring grocery data to detect a large-scale but localized bioterrorism attack. Our system illustrates the potential of data sources that may be more timely than traditional medical and public health data. The sy...

This paper develops a continuous-time model of the public and private provision of liquidity and its relation to unemployment. We extend the Mortensen-Pissarides model of the labor market by adding an over-the-counter (OTC) market where trades are collateralized with claims on …rms’pro…ts and public liabilities backed by taxes. As a result, the real interest rate is endogenous and depends on th...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether retail sales of non-prescription products can be used for syndromic surveillance and whether it can detect influenza activity at different spatial scales. A secondary objective was to assess whether changes in purchasing behaviour were related to public health advice or levels of media or public interest. SETTING The UK. PARTICIPANTS National and regional influen...

The importance of engaging students in science and helping them to become informed citizens has been highlighted by many groups invested in science education. This report describes a project that furthers both academic and civic goals through the integration of a service learning component into an undergraduate course. This nonmajors class covers the biology underlying the use of genetic inform...

BACKGROUND Hearing aids sold directly to consumers in retail stores or through the internet, without individual prescription by audiological professionals, are termed over-the-counter (OTC) devices. This study aimed to determine whether there was any change in the electroacoustic characteristics of OTC devices compared to research carried out a decade earlier. The previous results indicated tha...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of robotic dispensing machines in community pharmacies on staff efficiency and sales of over-the-counter drugs. SETTING The study was done on 253 community pharmacies in Germany that use a robotic dispensing machine manufactured by ROWA during 2008. METHOD Data concerning the financial and economic impact of using a robotic dispensing machine in comm...