RIP prescriptions?
Updated on 19 June 2009
As Viagra goes on sale over the counter More4 News asks whether the days of drug prescriptions could be coming to an end.
When is a prescription medicine not a prescription medicine?
Perhaps when it is sold over the counter at a chemist - and yet Boots, who from today will be selling Pfizer's male impotence drug Viagra, insist their pharmacists' consultations do indeed retain the health checks a doctor would give.
So, could the female contraceptive pill be the next product for which a visit to the doctor becomes unnecessary?
