Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health – Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu

Health Populi May 12, 2023
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. This week, three intriguing examples are resonating with us:

• The ever-evolving weight-loss industry
• FDA favors OTC use for Perrigo’s Opill daily oral contraceptive birth control pill
• The convergence of fashion and health — specifically, how an over-the-counter medicine converges with clothing that helps us feel better.

Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox. Dr. Eric Topol wrote about the category of GLP-1 drugs as “the new obesity breakthrough,” and added, “I’m not using the term ‘breakthrough’ lightly.”

In the past few months, we’ve...

Today's Sponsors

Today's Sponsor