Digital Health & AI

NBA star Antetokounmpo invests in Flexpower; Perrigo changes Americas helm; Bündchen models healthy lifestyle for Gaia; Vit-Best appoints growth chief; Olympian Jennings works with Protein Puck; and more.

PAGB calls on NHS England to create a self-care section in its NHS App and reinstate its online Apps Library to promote responsible digital self-care in the UK. 

The US FTC’s Sam Levine, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, discusses the advent of AI and the compounding risks consumers face in today’s evolving, largely unregulated, profoundly uncertain digital age.

Personal care and cosmetic product trademark filings compiled from the Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3.

Personal care and cosmetic product trademark filings compiled from the Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3.

Trade group ask FTC to withdraw notices, arguing it is attempting to impose substantiation standard prohibited under FDA regulations for supplement manufacturing and marketing and are inconsistent with its own as well as FDA guidance

Personal care and cosmetic product trademark filings compiled from the Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3.

In the second part of HBW Insight’s exclusive interview with OTC industry veteran Birgit Schuhbauer, we discuss the trends that will shape the future of consumer health. Drawing on her extensive experience in OTC, most recently as global vice president of J&J’s Self Care franchise and president of the AESGP, Schuhbauer gives her views on consumer shifts towards self-care and prevention, digitalization and e-commerce, supply chain resilience and sustainability. Schuhbauer also offers an insiders perspective on moves by companies like Kenvue and Haleon to spin out as independent OTC players, and the implications for Rx-to-OTC switch.

Automation through artificial intelligence, which saw significant progress during the COVID-19 pandemic amid labor shortages, is an area of focus for P&G as it continues work under its Supply Chain 3.0 initiative. The firm also is providing data analysis to retailers to encourage shelf simplification, company leadership says.

Personal care and cosmetic product trademark filings compiled from the Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3.

The firm is extending its partnership with Google LLC’s Google Cloud to use generative AI to monitor consumer sentiment and feedback in real time, incorporate trends in its R&D, and enrich digital consumer experiences.

In this episode, HBW Insight talks to BSS Consulting’s Birgit Schuhbauer about her stellar career in consumer health. Until recently, Schuhbauer was global vice president of Johnson & Johnson’s Self Care franchise and president of the Association of the European Self-Care Industry. Now running her own consulting business, Schuhbauer reflects in this first part of a two-part exclusive interview on her career highlights, what it takes to be a leader in OTC and on her role as the AESGP’s first female president during a time of unprecedented change.

A multimillion-dollar partnership will bring together Bayer Consumer Health's digestive health brand equity with Mahana's cutting edge digital therapeutic technology for treating irritable bowel syndrome. 

Personal care and cosmetic product trademark filings compiled from the Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Class 3.

Research suggesting FDA more stringently regulate claims for fish oil supplements impresses industry as another sign the agency’s regulation and the requirements fulfilled by compliant businesses aren’t appreciated or understood. FDA announcement of ED drugs in products labeled as supplements shows agency must be aware students are starting or returning to classes.

Numerous other businesses also offering topicals labeled and promoted to treat molluscum. National Library of Medicine includes 14 entries for nonprescription topicals labeled for the condition, including several products identified in FDA warnings.