FDA Updates

Muscle and joint pain: New OTC products offer relief

Boulder, Colo.-based Pharmaca, the nation's first European-style integrative retail pharmacy focuses on treating the whole person. Their successful model made them the choice as Drug Topics' 2009 Chain of the Year.

A retailer's review of best-selling OTC categories, including digestive health, vitamins and supplements, and eye and ear care.

Novation, a healthcare contracting services company based in Texas, has contracted with McKesson Corp?s OneStop Generics Program for its mutual health system customers.

A survey of new Rx, new OTC, new indications, and new generics

Drug Topics' exclusive survey on eye care offers pharmacist feedback and brand recommendations.

A San Francisco pilot program for ecological collection of consumer pharmaceutical waste is giving pharmacies nationwide the tools and training to create their own drug take-back programs.

A survey of new Rx, new OTC, new indications, and new generics

New OTC products for sore throats include sprays, lozenges, strips, ices, and liquids.

Sun care is a hot category that continues to grow. Regardless of seasonality in most parts of the country and many years of flat sales, this category has come back strong in the last few years thanks to new technology, specialized products, and an overall greater consumer awareness of the sun's dangerous effects.

A survey of new Rx, new OTC, new indications, and new generics

New OTC products for coughs and colds are plentiful this year.

A survey of new Rx, new OTC, new indications, and new generics

Exclusive DT survey: Pharmacies are selling more OTC headache medications.

Dietary supplements can cloud a healthcare professional's ability to determine an adverse reaction using the existing Naranjo Questionnaire. That was the point Celtina Reinert, PharmD, pharmacist at Sastun Center of Integrative Health Care, Overland Park, Kansas, tried to enforce at a Tuesday session.

A survey of new Rx, new OTC, new indications, and new generics

Physical and personal trainers recommend supplements and OTC products to their clients without considering possible interactions with other supplements or meds. By becoming an information resource to trainers, pharmacists can take the lead in promoting safe use of these products.

Information on OTC indigestion remedies that pharmacists can use to brief patients

In the wake of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, volunteer pharmacists from around the country dispensed medications in the field, kept pharmacies open, and helped reopen others.

Over-the-counter stomach remedies is one retail segment that has not been soured by skittish consumer spending.

CleviprexTM is the first new IV antihypertensive treatment to be approved by the FDA in 10 years.

A survey of new drugs, new indications, new formulations, new generics, new OTC, and new HBC.

Baby boomer health concerns are just the beginning of what drives vitamin sales.

FDA has approved Xenazine from Prestwick Pharmaceuticals for treatment of chorea in Huntington's disease. It is the first medication to treat any symptom of the disease.

FDA has approved clotrimazole cream USP 1 percent for treatment of skin itching or burning.

Previous medication therapies for diabetes were limited to insulin, sulfonylureas, and metformin. Promising new approaches include DPP-IV inhibitors, GLP-1 analogues, and SGLT-2 inhibitors.

In addition to syringes and insulin vials, products already on the market or in the works include insulin pens, pumps, patches, sprays, and inhaled and oral insulin.

FDA approves clotrimazole cream. The generic will be available in 15g tubes, 30g tubes, and 45g tubes.

A new label design from PharMEDium should make a medication's name and dose easier to read and recognize. The enhanced labeling will be applied first to four patient-controlled, IV pain-management drugs as well as local anesthetics for nerve-block therapy.

A survey of new drugs, new indications, new formulations, new generics, new OTC, and new products.