OTC

05/31/2013 - 12:39pm
Creating effective health-and-wellness programs

During Thursday’s education breakout sessions, Jeremy Doak, director of reward and wellness solutions for Edenred North America, shared with attendees the building blocks to create a strategy for delivering effective programs that impact consumer health-and-wellness outcomes during his presentation titled, “How to encourage consumer participation in health and wellness programs.”

05/31/2013 - 10:34am
Fruth decides to only carry diversion-resistant PSE product Nexafed behind the counter

Fruth Pharmacy announced their commitment to replace medications containing pseudoephedrine, a nonprescription decongestant that can be used in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine, with Nexafed, a PSE product formulated with Impede technology that disrupts the extraction and conversion of PSE to meth.

05/30/2013 - 9:42pm
Hispanic-centric Sal de Uvas Picot climbs onto best-seller list

It was only a matter of time before a Hispanic-centric OTC product with roots in South America started making its way toward the top of consumer packaged goods sales lists. Bristol-Myers Squibb de Mexico's Sal de Uvas Picot is the third-largest liquid/powder antacid brand on the market today for the 12 weeks ended April 21.

05/30/2013 - 9:42pm
Plan B heads toward family-planning aisle

The Food and Drug Administration last month announced that it has approved an amended application submitted by Teva Women's Health to market Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) for use without a prescription by women 15 years of age and older. That approval moved Plan B One-Step from behind the pharmacy counter into the family planning section of the pharmacy.

05/30/2013 - 9:42pm
Bayer extends antacid line with fruit chews

There can't be too many tried-and-true, immediate-action calcium carbonate formulations among heartburn remedies, no matter how many proton-pump inhibitors dot that shelf's landscape. At least that's what Bayer Consumer is counting on with its line extension of Alka Seltzer Fruit Chews.

05/30/2013 - 9:41pm
Allegra expands brand

Chattem recently catapulted its Allegra brand into the anti-itch space with the launch of Allegra Anti-Itch Intensive Relief Cream.

05/30/2013 - 9:40pm
Allergy sufferers find relief with mobile apps

Mobile apps may be helping to boost an allergy sufferer's awareness of his or her condition, and potentially prompting them to seek relief at the local pharmacy, as apps tracking regional allergens become more prominent.

05/30/2013 - 9:40pm
Delayed allergy season may be longer, worse

While cough-cold season 2012-2013 will go down in the record books as one of the better seasons in recent memory, the spring allergy season has been delayed into May thanks to recent storm systems traveling across the central United States into the Northeast that have triggered a "faux spring."

05/30/2013 - 4:06pm
Independent study: Zephrex-D effective in thwarting meth production

Westport Pharmaceuticals announced findings from independent testing of their meth-resistant pseudoephedrine product, Zephrex-D.

05/30/2013 - 10:06am
Stop & Shop offers Prescription Savings Card

Stop & Shop has launched a card to help customers save money on prescription drugs, days after sister-chain Giant Food of Landover, Md., did the same.

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