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Post-COVID Consumers Want Digitally Enabled, Personalized And Continuous Self-Care

 
• By David Ridley

Digital apps, wearables and home diagnostic tests - as well as dietary supplements - offer today's consumers ways of personalizing and embedding self-care into daily life, argued panelists at IQVIA Consumer Health's latest webinar.

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How has the coronavirus pandemic shaped consumer healthcare habits? This is the key question for OTC firms looking to adapt their product portfolios to the “new normal.”

Speakers at IQVIA Consumer Health’s recent panel discussion on “The Real World of Consumer Health R&D” suggested that consumers, more than ever, want their self-care purchases – which increasingly include digital

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Plenty For Industry To Do As EU Wastewater Directive Faces Legal Challenges

 
• By David Ridley

Engaging with EU member state legislators, stressing the impact of national EPR systems on the accessibility, availability, and affordability of medicines, reformulating products to reduce their financial contribution, and lobbying for expanding the scope of EPR schemes to include other polluting industries are all ways that the European consumer health industry can try and influence the way that the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is transposed into national legislation, law firm Mason Hayes & Curran explains.

French Agency Proposes Effective EU Ban On CBD In Foods And Cosmetics

 
• By David Ridley

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