OTC Pain

Warren, N.J.-based GSK Consumer Healthcare on Thursday announced its pain-relieving Excedrin brand will be a signature sponsor of Cleveland's upcoming (and unofficial) Perfect Season Parade slated for Jan. 6 in celebration of the team's historically bad 0-16 season.

LONDON — If Pfizer follows through with its announcement last week to potentially place its consumer business up for sale, GlaxoSmithKline, presently the third-largest OTC seller in the U.S. marketplace, would certainly take a look at it, the company's CEO shared Wednesday morning.

NEW YORK — Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare division has rebounded with the return of several product lines, including products under the powerhouse brand Tylenol, which had seen sales and market share erode in the wake of recalls in 2010.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Hisamitsu America on Tuesday announced the Lidocaine Plus product line with the introduction of the Salonpas Lidocaine Plus Pain Relieving Cream and the Salonpas Lidocaine Plus Pain Relieving Liquid.

NEW YORK — Pfizer on Tuesday might be putting its $3.4 billion consumer healthcare business on the sales block, noting that all scenarios would be considered during a strategic review of its options, which include a full or partial separation of the business from Pfizer through a spin-off, sale or other transaction.

Of course, Pfizer may ultimately determine to retain the business, the company added.

AUSTIN, Texas — Clarity Science, a division of Safe Harbor Compliance and Clinical Services, on Wednesday reported the results of the Institutional Review Board-approved Optimizing Patient Experience and Response to Topical Analgesics (OPERA) Study which evaluated patients with chronic pain who were treated with topical analgesics.

Overall results, published in the Journal of Pain Research, suggest that topical treatments may provide an effective and safer treatment alternative to opioids and prescription NSAIDs for the management of chronic pain.