HEALTH

With the advent of complimentary health screenings available through a growing number of retail health fairs — such as CVS Health, Walmart and Sam’s Club and ShopRite, to name a few — more and more consumers are learning for the first time that they may be diabetic or prediabetic from their neighborhood pharmacist as opposed to their primary care doctors.

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More and more, meter manufacturers today are differentiating their offerings not by the traditional micrometers of blood necessary for a viable glucose reading or the value inherent in the cost of test strips, but in the accompanying adherence app or other technologies that will help diabetes patients better navigate their disease states.

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Diabetics are most adherent around meal times, especially during breakfast and toward the beginning of the week, according to a review of Medisafe’s more than 160,000 diabetes patients who utilize its adherence tool in an effort to better manage the condition.

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WASHINGTON — The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Tuesday welcomed one new member to the CHPA Board of Directors during the board’s fall meeting. Rekha Rao, general manager, North America, Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Colgate-Palmolive Company, was elected to the board.

In her role at Colgate-Palmolive Company, Rao has overall profit-and-loss responsibility and is responsible for both the strategies and day-to-day operations.

PHOENIX - Your birth year predicts -- to a certain extent - how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, according to a study published last week that was co-led by researchers from the University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California, Los Angeles.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - Despite their generational differences, three out of four gen X and millennial moms list fever as their No. 1 concern when caring for their sick children, far above other symptoms of illness, including vomiting, diarrhea, chills, coughing and headache, Braun reported Tuesday. All told, 74% of all moms surveyed said they were either extremely or very concerned about fever in their children.  

from l. to r.: Anita Brikman, CHPA Educational Foundation; Annie Walker, Walmart Stores; and Christopher DeWolf, CHPA Educational Foundation

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - NBTY is now Nature's Bounty. On Monday the international health and wellness company transformed its corporate identity to better reflect its commitment to global wellness, the company announced.