Viagra marketer Pfizer also could have nonprescription sales in sight as it recruits a "global sexual health" brand manager with responsibilities including shepherding market expansion through an Rx-to-OTC switch.
Sanofi is seeding the field for potential introduction of an OTC Cialis with a US survey showing nearly 75% of men say sexual health is "critical" to their happiness.
Join thousands of industry professionals who rely on HBW Insight for daily insights
Already a subscriber?
HBW Insight catches up with UK OTC industry association CEO Michelle Riddalls to talk about digital self-care and the unrealized promise of Brexit - part 2.
Reps. Latta, Crenshaw and Miller-Meeks contend language in ACNU final rule preamble would allow a sponsor of an approved application to litigate to halt Rx availability of same formulation and “risk eliminating the very rule on which its product approval was based.”
HBW Insight catches up with PAGB CEO Michelle Riddalls to chat about the association's new five year plan. Riddalls also reflects on the successes of the last five years, including relaunching the UK Reclassification Alliance, which has published a list of Rx-to-OTC switches the government would like to see applications for. Part one of two.
“I’m not sure exactly if they understood how broad this actually is and what that might potentially lead to or what the follow-up would be if somebody now decides to sell a 10-milligram version of ivermectin for human use,” says food and drug regulation attorney Frederick Stearns.
Major Europe-based consumer health players Haleon, Reckitt and Bayer feature in this sales and earnings preview, which highlights what to look out for as these three firms report their Q1 2025 results over the coming weeks.
The preliminary White House 2026 budget plan cuts agency funding, but not so sharply that user fees are excluded from collection.
Congress launched an inquiry into 23andMe amid privacy concerns following its bankruptcy, particularly regarding the potential sale of sensitive user data. Additionally, a Cybernews report gave 40 DNA testing firms an average cybersecurity grade of D, citing widespread vulnerabilities and data breaches, along with inadequate public information about their security practices.
