HEALTH

NEW YORK Burt's Bees is looking to help consumers battle blemishes – naturally!

The manufacturer has introduced a four-step product regimen that it is promoting as "the first and only truly natural acne solution" and it was spotted on shelf at a CVS store in Manhattan.

The regimen includes a Purifying Gel Cleanser, Pore Refining Scrub, Daily Moisturizing Lotion and Targeted Spot Treatment.

NEW YORK Determining just how much FSAs are utilized in the purchase of OTCs has always been somewhat of a fuzzy science. Thanks to the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation, we now have a government source suggesting that about $460 million per year in sales tax revenues would have been generated in the ensuing five years. Using state sales tax rates as of July 2009, the mean average tax across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia is 5.1%.

NEW YORK Vogue International has been making waves in the hair care segment with its Organix hair care brand, which launched in 2007.

The brand, spotted on shelf at a CVS store in Manhattan, will have an even bigger year in 2010 as it will be partnering with Walt Disney to promote Tim Burton?s new “Alice in Wonderland” film, featuring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

NEW YORK This story was picked up yesterday by our Drug Store News team for the Weekly Drug Fix as a prime example of the convenience that an established drug store footprint, combined with a burgeoning retail-based convenient clinic care model, can deliver to the American public.

NEW YORK Here’s the diabetic rub — there is no more efficient way to reach the growing multitudes of diabetics around improving disease-state management and testing/pharmaceutical compliance than through the one touch point with which they interact most often — that being the neighborhood pharmacist.