Regulator licenses first over-the-counter antibiotic

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has welcomed a move by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to reclassify azithromycin - an antibiotic used to treat chlamydia - as an over-the-counter drug.

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