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  • Disease still prevalent despite ebbing diagnoses

    Even though the number of new diagnoses each year is trending down, diabetes is still a prevalent chronic disease in the United States.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

  • Leveraging service to enhance shopping experience

    Frustrated watching specialty stores, online merchants and department stores siphon off a market they once controlled more than 50% of, mass marketers are firing back.

    (To view the full Category Review, click here.)

    To regain their dominance of the $16 billion U.S. beauty market, chains such as Walgreens, Target, CVS and Walmart are burnishing their images. Among the moves they are taking are:

  • CVS, YMCA partnership curbs new cases

    CVS Health in September partnered with the YMCA to help expand its Diabetes Prevention Program.

    (To view the full Diabetes Report, click here.)

    The YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program is a group-based lifestyle intervention for adults at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Through a 12-month, evidence-based plan, the program has been successful in reducing the number of new cases of diabetes by 58% overall and by 71% in adults older than 60 years.

  • Specialty Focused: DSN interviews Walgreens specialty pharmacy group VP

    The significant role that specialty pharmacies play in specialty care — from ensuring patients have access to their specific disease state treatment to delivering necessary training and other services around their medication — is something Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy knows well.

  • CVS puts its brand on innovation

    This isn’t your parents’ private-label business any more. To be sure, the rules of the store brand game have changed over the years — price matters, but it certainly isn’t the only factor driving the growing consumer interest in private label that exists today.

    (To download Special Report: Double Down on Health, click here.)

  • Naloxone access, community efforts work to curb opioid abuse

    Drug overdoses have become the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, with 47,055 people dying in 2014 as a result of lethal drug overdoses — 18,893 of which were related to prescription pain relievers. The epidemic has drawn the attention of everyone from President Barack Obama to local first responders, all of whom have pointed to the drug naloxone as one of the critical first lines of defense in saving the lives of thousands from accidental overdose. Naloxone can reverse the effects of an overdose, but until recently it could only be accessed by prescription.

  • New earplugs relieve weather-related migraines

    COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. — Cirrus Healthcare will be launching the clinically designed earplugs MigraineX, along with an app that tracks shifts in barometric pressure, a known trigger of migraines. “Weather causes migraines,” noted Lanny Lewis, SVP business development at Cirrus Healthcare, and not a lot of people know that. Cirrus is looking to change that, Lewis said.

  • Trends in men’s facial hair impact sales

    The shave category is trying to get its groove back. With the exception of razors, where sales are up a healthy 10.6% for the 52-week period ended Sept. 4, 2016, as tracked by IRI across multi-outlets, all of the other categories in shave are down.

    (To view the full Shave Report, click here.)

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