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HBW Insight is a single source of regulatory, legislative, legal and commercial news and insight connecting the dots across 3 sectors, including over the counter medicines, vitamins and dietary supplements, and cosmetics, which have increasing points of intersection, helping you to anticipate global challenges, risks, and opportunities.
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HBW Insight gives you the power to go behind the news stories to understand the implications of worldwide industry developments across three different but complementary consumer healthcare sectors, on your business.
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A broad network of global expert analysts and journalists give you an insider’s perspective from tracking market events and their impacts from around the globe, to understand the potential impact of developments and trends. Plus, access to exclusive interviews with key opinion leaders and market movers. We also draw on the strength and expertise of the rest of the Pharma Intelligence family of analytical and market intelligence tools.
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By Malcolm Spicer 11 Dec 2019
Senate's Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act goes next for consideration by House, which has had a bill by the same title on its floor for a vote since it was passed by Energy and Commerce Committee in late June.
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 11 Dec 2019
Farah Ahmed, president and CEO of the Fragrance Creators Association, discusses the trade group’s expansion in recent years beyond immediate regulatory and legislative concerns to a platform for robust member collaboration in the name of positively impacting the world.
HBW Insight
By Malcolm Spicer 06 Dec 2019
Recent statement that FDA has not found evidence supporting CBD as GRAS for use in human or animal food potentially points to NDI notifications as the only option manufacturers, marketers and other businesses will have to convince agency about safety for CBD and other hemp-derived substances used in dietary supplements.
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By Tom Gallen 06 Dec 2019
GSK has launched Flunase in Japan following the switch of fluticasone propionate. JSMI’s Toshi Tominaga gives his assessment of the product’s prospects as an OTC drug.
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By Ryan Nelson 28 Nov 2019
Industry advocates working to support GRASE determinations for eight UV filters are faced with a dilemma. They would like to share nonpublic studies with the FDA on a confidential basis – at least to get initial temperature readings from the agency as to the studies’ usefulness in addressing data gaps – but under the current OTC monograph framework, no such pathway exists.
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By Malcolm Spicer 27 Nov 2019
Before Congress de-scheduled hemp at end of 2018 and forced agency's hand on considering lawful use of ingredients derived from the plant in supplements and food, the floodgate for sales of the products was opened in 2013 by a DoJ policy change to de-emphasize enforcement of most federal marijuana laws.
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By Tom Gallen 22 Nov 2019
Aspirational OTC products such as probiotics are outstripping demand for traditional symptom relievers, IQVIA's Andy Tisman told the recent Ceuta International Conference. Consumer health players must adapt their portfolios to cater for the more health conscious, informed, and digitally-connected consumer, Tisman advises
Topic Business Strategies
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By Eileen Francis 13 Nov 2019
In latest study casting doubt on the nutrients' effect on chronic illness, researchers find vitamin D and fish oil ineffective in staving off type 2 diabetics' kidney failure. Editorial also published in JAMA says further research is needed to analyze the nutrients’ possible benefits to diabetics with chronic kidney disease.
Topic Clinical trials
HBW Insight
By David Ridley 13 Nov 2019
Following a landmark win against the German government for the Rx-to-OTC switch of desloratadine last month, Novartis has again secured a victory in the German Higher Court system, this time to continue marketing its Biosan probiotics range in the country.
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By Malcolm Spicer 08 Nov 2019
"This was an area that the agency thought was just going to disappear on its own," says Freddie Ann Hoffman, who chaired FDA homeopathic working group that helped develop CPG adopted in 1988 to allow sales of homeopathics to continue without pre-market approval.
Topic FDA Policy and regulation
HBW Insight
By Tom Gallen 08 Nov 2019
Recalling Zantac in North America over contamination concerns and tightening regulatory requirements in Europe combined to impede growth at Sanofi Consumer Healthcare in Q3. New CEO Paul Hudson says he is still taking time to get to know the business before making any strategic moves.
Topic Policy and regulation
HBW Insight
By Malcolm Spicer 01 Nov 2019
Revised draft guidance identifies types of homeopathics posing "higher risks to public health." FDA withdraws 1988 compliance policy guide that allows homeopathic to be available even though they are not subject to pre-market approval or other review process agency imposes on all other drugs.
Topic FDA Policy and regulation
HBW Insight
By David Ridley 07 Aug 2019
Japan's new Rx-to-OTC switch procedure has exacerbated a "switch lag" compared with developed countries, says Japan Self-Medication Industry senior adviser Toshi Tominaga in an exclusive interview with HBW Insight. Tominaga proposes improvements such as self-care education for consumers and drug usage advice included by firms in switch applications to help balance the risk-benefit decisions of expert judges.
Topic Policy and regulation
HBW Insight
By Malcolm Spicer 29 Jul 2019
Research in JAMA Internal Medicine studied "longitudinal associations between [e-cigarette] use and tobacco smoking patterns in a large population-based cohort study" and found use was associated with reduction in smoking and an increased probability of smoking cessation. But the researchers saw that e-cigarette users who quit tobacco "tended to relapse to smoking more frequently than" former smokers who didn't use e-cigarettes.
Topic Medtech
HBW Insight
10 Jul 2019
Cannabidiol (CBD) is being looked at more and more by health beauty and wellness companies for new OTC drugs, cosmetics and supplements. It is highly controversial because while CBD has many natural benefits for treating a variety of symptoms and conditions, it is the active ingredient in cannabis which comes from the hemp plant.
Topic Drug review Drug approval
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