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EU Packaging Regulation Presents Challenge And Opportunity For Consumer Health Industry
A proposed new European Union packaging regulation, which introduces environmental and labelling requirements and extended producer responsibility for medicines, medical devices and food supplements, could be challenging for the region's consumer health industry. But it could also be a spur to creativity, argues Chris Whitehouse, chairman and managing director of Whitehouse Communications.
German Nutraceuticals Market Growth Slows In 2022 But Vitamin C Remains Popular
The growth of sales of nutraceuticals through German pharmacy is slowing post-pandemic, according to IQVIA data. However, there were still double-digit gains for vitamin C and multivitamin products.
Haleon’s Tess Player: Digital Self-Care Can Reduce Health Inequality And Raise Productivity
Haleon's partnership with Microsoft to include 1,500 of the former's products in the latter's Seeing AI application – which reads aloud information on packs for the visually impaired – is an example of how digitalization can help to make healthcare more inclusive, according to vice president and global head of healthcare professionals and health influencer marketing Tess Player.
Haleon’s Tess Player: Digital Self-Care Can Reduce Health Inequality And Raise Productivity
Haleon's partnership with Microsoft to include 1,500 of the former's products in the latter's Seeing AI application – which reads aloud information on packs for the visually impaired – is an example of how digitalization can help to make healthcare more inclusive, according to vice president and global head of healthcare professionals and health influencer marketing Tess Player.
Haleon's Nick Tate: Tech Partnerships Key To Unlocking Digital Consumer Health Future
“There’s no one company, government, person or technology who is positioned to ‘solve’ the health of the world,” notes Haleon's Nick Tate. Which is why OTC companies are partnering with tech firms large and small to create the next generation of consumer healthcare products and services. In the first part of an exclusive interview on the future of digital consumer health, Tate – who heads up the firm’s incubator business, Haleon NEXT – discusses some of the complications of tech innovation that make such collaboration attractive.
Over The Counter 20 March 2023: The Shape Of The Global OTC Market To Come, With IQVIA Consumer Health's Amit Shukla
In this episode, HBW Insight catches up with IQVIA Consumer Health’s vice president of global consulting services, Amit Shukla, to find out how the global consumer healthcare market is performing as it comes out of the pandemic. It’s good news, Shukla reveals, based on the firm’s latest intelligence. The market grew double digits in 2022 and is predicted to expand by 5-6% per year in the future - even faster if some of the innovative switches currently in the pipeline succeed. Shukla points to artificial intelligence, sustainability and popular wellness ingredients as trends to watch that will drive future market growth.