The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new guidance for drug makers on prescription drug promotion. FDA has released two Federal Register notices pertained to prescription drug promotion from the FDA Center for Drug ...
Tags: drug, prescription drug
Nestlé Health Science announced that it will make an equity investment of $145m in US-based Aimmune Therapeutics, which corresponds to a 15% stake after completion of the transaction. The parties also entered into a strategic ...
Tags: Food Allergies, Nestle
East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, but a recent high level international conference in Frankfurt, Germany, is determined to prove him wrong, at least with regards healthcare, by ...
An award-winning independent bed retailer has backed calls for a national sleep strategy and 'slumber number' to guide the public on how much sleep they should be aiming to get. The Royal Society for Public Health’s report Waking Up ...
Athletico Physical Therapy wraps up National Athletic Training Month (NATM), which ran through March, by demonstrate gratuity for athletic trainers. Athletico held fundraising events and public education programs with NATM to increase ...
Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
Tags: LRC, Older adults, Lighting
ACCC attacks government’s Competition Review recommendations, while other sectors respond The recommendations published this week in the Harper Competition Review Final Report have been largely welcomed by industry and regulators. ...
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The EnterMedics Maestro Rechargeable System weight loss treatment device is effective although scientists are unclear why. The FDA has approved the first weight-loss device since 2007, giving obese adults an alternative to dieting and ...
A report by Juniper Research has found that will more than treble by 2018 with over 70 million devices in-use worldwide, compared to an estimated 19 million in-use devices this year. Juniper expects fitness to remain the dominant wearables ...
Tags: retail prices, smart watches, Sporting Goods
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa Care Homes, Stockport-based SurgiChem is a provider of medication adherence packaging to the UK care home and domiciliary care markets. The company supplies monitored dosage systems to a network of over ...
Tags: SurgiChem, US Firm Omnicell, Packaging
Omnicell has completed the acquisition of UK-based SurgiChem, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa Care Homes (CFG), following approval from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK. CFG will now be integrated with Omnicell's ...
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On Monday 11 August the FoodLegal Symposium: Breakthroughs in making and marketing healthier products is being held in the Melbourne CBD. Answering the big questions about making and marketing foods as ‘healthier’, the ...
The electronic cigarette has already won the heart of a very large number of smokers in France but it also creates a huge controversy. Currently , the status of this innovative product is not yet determined. The electronic cigarette is not ...
Parents and healthcare professionals must be aware that children can have strokes and be prepared to respond to symptoms, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2014. As in ...
US-based AliveCor has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to sell its AliveCor heart monitor without prescription, previously available by prescription only. It is claimed to be the only FDA cleared mobile ECG ...
Tags: Heart Monitor, AliveCor