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  • ECRM acquires product discovery platform RangeMe

    SOLON, Ohio and SAN FRANCISCO — Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing has acquired a technology company that has been changing how retailers discover new suppliers.

    The company on Tuesday announced the acquisition of RangeMe, which streamlines new product discovery in a way that ECRM said will complement the foundation it has laid in helping buyers discover new products and improve category planning effectiveness.

  • 2017 Women's Choice Award goes to eos

    NEW YORK — The Women's Choice Award on Tuesday honored eos with the  2017 Women's Choice Award  based on recommendations from its female customers in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by WomenCertified.

  • Study: Hospitalized flu patients who never got vaccinated are twice as likely to die

    ATLANTA — A new study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that flu vaccination reduced deaths, intensive care unit admissions, ICU length of stay and overall duration of hospitalization among hospitalized flu patients. This study is an important first step in better understanding whether flu vaccines can reduce severe flu outcomes even if they fail to protect against infection.

  • Researchers determine zinc acetate successfully reduces duration of common cold

    HELSINKI, Finland — According to the latest meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials, zinc acetate lozenges may increase the rate of recovery from the common cold by three-fold, researchers from the University of Helsinki reported Thursday. On the fifth day of a cold, as many as 70% of the zinc lozenge patients had recovered from that cold as compared to 27% of the placebo patients.

  • Northeastern researchers track flu in real-time in 140 characters or less

    BOSTON — An international team led by Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University has developed a unique computational model to project the spread of the seasonal flu in real time using Twitter.

    According to the researchers, posts on Twitter in combination with key parameters of each season's epidemic, including the incubation period of the disease, the immunization rate, how many people an individual with the virus can infect and the viral strains present, nets a real-time tracking of flu progression.

  • Lip Smacker turns to consumers for next flavor extension

    CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. — Lip Smacker­­­­ on Monday announced a product collaboration contest wherein fans have a say in what flavor gets made next. Dubbed the "Official Tastemaker 2017 Search", the brand is highlighting their appreciation to its loyal followers as well as newer Lip Smacker enthusiasts.

  • 2017 considered one of longest- and latest-running flu seasons

    ATLANTA — The 2016/2017 influenza season is still ongoing. According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu incidence is still tracking above the national baseline, making this year both the longest-running season and the latest-running season in recent memory.

  • CDC: Flu shots for children significantly reduces death from influenza

    ATLANTA — A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month in Pediatrics is the first of its kind to show that flu vaccination significantly reduced a child’s risk of dying from influenza. The study, which looked at data from four flu seasons between 2010 and 2014, found that flu vaccination reduced the risk of flu-associated death by half (51%) among children with underlying high-risk medical conditions and by nearly two-thirds (65%) among healthy children.

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