A large drugstore chain - the city will not say which one - sends daily reports on its sales of certain medicines, about 8,000 prescription entries and 40,000 over-the-counter items.

Local pharmacies throughout China do have a number of over-the-counter items, including Panadol, cough syrups, cold and flu medicines.

Even so, I bonfired all my vanities and brought along only those prescription and over-the-counter items necessary to maintain life and other regularities.

Pain medicine may include either over-the-counter items, such as ibuprofen, or stronger medicine prescribed by your doctor.

The following list of dual-purpose over-the-counter items can be reimbursed if used for medical purposes.

These over-the-counter items may be hard to find under United States trade names.

The medicine cabinet held a small selection of over-the-counter items: aspirin, Mycitracin, Nuprin.

He sold a few generic over-the-counter items like cold-sore lotion and gray hair coloring, which really weren't national products at that time.

Nursing homes now represent some $2.5 million of his $4 million sales, while walk-in prescription business accounts for $1 million and the over-the-counter items $500,000.

Benfield customers range from small contractors who buy over-the-counter items, like a fitting for 25 cents, up to the largest high-tech manufacturing companies in the nation, Mr. Bond said.