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COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. — Cirrus Healthcare Products is looking to help migraine sufferers #killmigraines with the launch of a new app in early July that will serve as an alert system and companion to its new product of the same name — MigraineX. The app alerts sufferers when weather pressure changes are likely to trigger migraine attacks.

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. — The NBTY Foundation raised over $590,000 through its 10th Annual Golf Outing this month.

More than 300 attendees came out for a sun-filled day of golf in Long Island to contribute to NBTY’s efforts to bring wellness to communities. 

BOSTON – BV Investment Partners on Thursday announced the sale of ECRM, an integrated services, software and data provider serving consumer product manufacturers and retailers, to Snow Phipps Group.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

BOSTON - To help clinicians and patients make informed decisions about aspirin use, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new, free, mobile app, "Aspirin-Guide" that calculates both the cardiovascular disease risk score and the bleeding risk score for an individual patient, and helps clinicians decide which patients are appropriate candidates for the use of low-dose aspirin (75 to 81 mg daily).

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Healthcare Products Association on Thursday elected Jeff Needham as chairman of the CHPA Board of Directors at its June meeting. Needham serves as EVP and general manager of U.S. Consumer Healthcare for Perrigo Company, the nation’s largest manufacturer of over-the-counter private label products for the store brand market.

Needham succeeds Patrick Lockwood-Taylor, who was previously VP of Personal Health Care North America and Global Digestive Wellness at Proctor & Gamble.

WAUKESHA, Wis. – Smith Drug Company recently utilized Hamacher Resource Group's 360° Store Assessment program in an effort to boost front-end productivity across its independent retail pharmacy operators, HRG announced Tuesday.