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  • Boston researchers crack real-time tracking of flu season

    BOSTON - Big data is playing a role in better tracking flu outbreaks in real time, a team of researchers found, just not necessarily through Google searches. A team led by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital found that cloud-based data from electronic health records can be used to pick up cases in real time, at least one week ahead of CDC reporting.
     

  • FDA setting stage for NDUFA with June public meeting

    SILVER SPRING, Md. - OTC suppliers may soon have a streamlined highway to the kind of sales-driving product innovation that Rx-to-OTC switch generates using monographs, according to an announcement from the Food and Drug Administration issued Tuesday. However, it may be a toll road.
     

  • CVS Pharmacy introduces 2,500 health and wellness SKUs under CVS Health banner

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. –  CVS Pharmacy on Wednesday launched a new flagship line of more than 2,500 health and wellness products under the CVS Health banner, implementing the next phase in the company’s commitment to transforming its stores into premier health and beauty destinations.
     

  • Breaking through the sea of sameness

    There were more than 2,400 health, beauty and wellness items launched in 2015. And if historical percentages play out, of those less than 10% will emerge as successful brands with “staying power.”

  • Kantar Retail Drug Channel Workshop charts present, future of retail health and wellness

    The drug channel is undergoing massive transformation as a new age of healthcare consumerism is driving a new retail-ization of healthcare. "The old paradigm of a patient is now a consumer looking for information," said Kantar Retail director Brian Owens, setting the table for two days of intense discussion and in-depth presentations at the group's annual Drug Channel Workshop last week.
     

  • Study: Moms who get flu shot while pregnant provide significant protection to newborn

    SALT LAKE CITY - Babies whose moms get flu vaccinations while pregnant have a significantly reduced risk of acquiring influenza during their first six months of life, a new study shows, leading the authors to declare that the need for getting more pregnant women immunized is a public health priority.
     

  • Perrigo first-to-market with private label offering of Mucinex 1200mg DM extended-release

    DUBLIN - Perrigo and its partner Allergan on Tuesday announced the launch of guaifenesin 1200mg and dextromethorphan HBr 60mg extended-release tablets, the first OTC store brand equivalent to Mucinex 1200mg DM extended-release tablets. 
     

  • Arizona, Texas top Walgreens Flu Index 'most active' list for 2015/2016 season

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - With flu activity winding down in the U.S., Walgreens on Friday announced the top markets and states for flu activity for the season, according to its season-ending Walgreens Flu Index examining aggregate prescription data from Nov. 2015 through mid-April 2016.
     
    The states with the highest rates of influenza, according to the Index, were Arizona, Texas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.
     
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