New Products

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Nelsons on Thursday introduced Homeopathic H+Care Hemorrhoid Cream, a new hemorrhoid cream that provides relief from hemorrhoid pain, itching and burning without the use of vasoconstrictors. Vasoconstrictors can negatively affect other health issues like high blood pressure.

CINCINNATI — A mobile app described as the specialty pharmacy industry's first for patients with hemophilia has become available.

NEW YORK — Coty’s Rimmel London beauty brand, which is celebrating its 180th anniversary, unveiled during a press event on Tuesday its spring 2014 collection, featuring products for eyes, face, lips and nails.

The event, held at Manhattan hotspot The Lion, featured Rimmel London’s global makeup artist Kirstin Piggott and beauty icon and Rimmel partner Georgia May Jagger.

ORRVILLE, Ohio — The J.M. Smucker Co. is introducing new breakfast mixes to its Hungry Jack line for the holiday season, the food products manufacturer said Wednesday.

The new products include waffle and pancake mix varieties that the company said would help families "bring back breakfast." They include the Complete Belgian Waffle Mix and such seasonal pancake mix varieties as pumpkin spice, cinnamon spice and Easy Pack Funfetti Holiday Buttermilk Pancake Mix.

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — Drug maker Hospira is investing more than $200,000 at a plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., that will evaluate and test more than 450 products, the company said Wednesday.

Hospira had a ribbon-cutting ceremony to announce the opening of its new quality and analytics testing laboratory, attended by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and other political leaders from the state.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic contraceptive drug made by Famy Care, agency records show.

The agency approved Famy's levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol tablets in the 0.02-mg/0.1-mg strengths.

The drug is a generic version of Aviane-28, made by Teva Women's Health, a division of Israeli drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries that previously went under the name Duramed.

NEW YORK — Keeping counterfeit and diverted drugs out of the U.S. drug supply chain will require closing vulnerable regulatory gaps that risk letting them in, according to a new report by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new generic drug for treating bacterial and protozoan infections, according to the agency.

The FDA approved a generic version of Mission Pharmacal's Tindamax (tinidazole) made by Unique Pharmaceuticals. The drug is a tablet in the 250-mg and 500-mg strengths.

Tindamax is used to treat bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis and giardiasis. The drug has annual sales of about $16.2 million, according to IMS Health.