The initial roll out of swine flu vaccinations will take the form of a nasal spray. The Center for Disease Control reported that 3.4 million doses of MedImmune's needle-free nose spray will be available the first week of October. The CDC's Dr Jay Butler said eventually delivery would rise to about 20 million doses a week. Originally - the swine flu vaccination was to be given through 2 injections that were spaced out over a 2 or 3 week period.
The FDA recently voted in favor of pushing a new formulation of oxycodone hydrochloride for approval. The new OxyContin formula is more difficult to crush or dissolve which will hopefully make it harder to be used as a drug of abuse . The FDA recommended that Purdue Pharma's application for a new, resin-coated formulation should replace the original version, which has been on the market since 1996. Randall Flick, MD, an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who voted to recommend approval of the drug said, "Clearly the old formulation is worse than the new, although I think the difference is relatively small," Flick concluded, "Hardcore abusers are likely to devise new ways to break down the harder tablet or figure out which solvents will dissolve it fastest, within 'day or weeks' of the product's release on the market."