A deal between Stada Arzneimittel and Adcan Pharma will see the former exclusively market and commercialize in the UAE a portfolio of 15 consumer healthcare products produced and supplied by the latter.

Doctor's Best acquires Viactiv calcium and magnesium brand from Guardion; VitaliyNow is Society Brands’ third 2024 acquisition; and VitaminLab formulation services on CharmHealth.

Consumer health manufacturer Uriach has agreed to acquire Germany's Pascoe Naturmedizin and through a separate transaction France's Laboratoires Ineldéa, following investment by private-equity firm ICG.

A deal between Stada Arzneimittel and Adcan Pharma will see the former exclusively market and commercialize in the UAE a portfolio of 15 consumer healthcare products produced and supplied by the latter.

Aspirin is celebrating its 125^th anniversary this year. To find out what brand owner Bayer Consumer Health is doing to celebrate this occasion, and what it is doing to take the brand into the next 125 years, HBW Insight chats with the company’s senior vice president, Global Head Allergy, Cough/Cold, Pain and Heart Health, Reese Fitzpatrick, and head of R&D, North America and Therapeutics, Rachel Koontz.

Attorneys for some plaintiffs alleging harm from talc products J&J marketed ask a court to order the firm, along with a subsidiary holding company it created in 2021 to manage its talc liabilities and immediately placed in bankruptcy, to provide emails and other communications among in-house counsel and compel their testimony.

Alliance Pharma has been hit by a non-cash impairment charge of £46.4m related to its Amberen dietary supplement reflecting the brand's struggles in the US e-commerce market.

More than a decade after acquiring vitafusion and L’il Critter gummy vitamin brands and touting gummy as a key growth driver in the VMS space, C&D’s seeing different market trends.

“Clear Eyes is a perfect example where we're dual-sourced and two facilities don't usually go down at the same time. This was just a quite an anomaly,” says CFO Christine Sacco, noting PCH works with more than 100 contract manufacturers.

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling is expected to have a minimal impact on drug approvals and other scientific determinations, but matters steeped in the interpretation of regulation and statute, such as marketing exclusivity, could face a heightened risk of challenge, legal experts say.

The unanimous decision that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacks standing to challenge the FDA’s relaxation of the abortion pill REMS leaves unclear whether the court would have deferred to the agency’s expertise on the merits. 

Exergen seeks a declaration from Massachusetts federal court that claims challenged by Baxter in the National Advertising Division forum regarding the accuracy of its thermometers do not constitute false or misleading advertising, if they are even advertising at all.