Focus Consumer Healthcare appeals NAD recommendation to pull or modify majority of express and implied claims on Pamprin Botanical product packaging, in advertising and Amazon listings challenged by Bayer Consumer.

As China's regulators renew moves to encourage the development of pediatric medicines, indication expansion may give health players a new growth engine, despite remaining policy challenges and lingering market uncertainties.

By acquiring Illinois' Alva-Amco, Japan's Kobayashi is hoping to take its US consumer business, and brands such as Zim's Max, to the next level. 

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Medical Device Deals Update column is a survey of recent medtech M&A, alliance, and financing activity. This month’s column covers deals announced September-October 2015.