FDA reportedly set to OK Plan B for over the counter (Denver Post)
The Food and Drug Administration will approve an application, possibly today, that would make the long- debated emergency contraceptive Plan B available without a prescription to women 18 and older, according to sources long involved with the issue.

Plan B Approval Said Near (Washington Post)
FDA to allow sale of "morning-after" contraceptive pill without prescription to adult women, lab says.

Gen-Probe Receives FDA Clearance to Test Additional Specimen Types for STDs With the APTIMA Combo 2(R) Assay on the (FinanzNachrichten)
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gen-Probe ( Nachrichten ) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing clearance to use the APTIMA Combo 2(R) assay to test two additional kinds of patient samples for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) on the fully automated TIGRIS(R) system.