FDA Updates

Treatments suggested include probiotics coupled with fructooligosaccharides. zinc pyrithione products, glycemic support products, and homeopathic medicines.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association is providing educational programs to stop DXM abuse in teens. It also discusses what manufacturers are voluntarily doing to stop teens from purchasing large quantities of cough and cold medicines which contain the ingredients dextromethorphan.

Biopure Corp. has drafted a protocol for patients with life-threatening anemia for whom blood transfusion is not feasible to obtain its investigational product Hemopure (HBOC-201) on a compassionate-use basis.

Products encompassing newly approved Rx drugs and generics, plus health and beauty care, home health care, and other items.

Organized by HBC category, the never-out list is Hamacher Resource Group's proprietary list of products that pharmacy shelves should never be without. The following is a partial list of never-outs from the weight-control category.