Juul Commits $100 Million to New System to Help Retailers Block Sales to Minors
Facing increasing scrutiny for its role in the teen vaping epidemic, e-cigarette maker Juul on Thursday announced a system meant to stop all retail sales of its products to anyone underage.
The company is providing more than $100 million in “incentives and financial support” to retailers who agree to implement an automated technology meant to prevent anyone underage from buying Juul devices. The system, which will be part of retailers’ point-of-sale systems, will lock up and refuse to complete a sale until a valid ID is scanned electronically. It will also limit all purchases to one vaporizer and four nic...
Source: TIME: Health - August 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized onetime public health Source Type: news
Mango promoted to Department of Health & Human Services exec post
Former Pittsburgh health care consultant Paul Mango has been promoted to a new policy post at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mango has been chief of staff for the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services. He'll now be HHS deputy chief of staff for policy, which is newly created to plan and coordinate policy. He'll be part of the leadership team at the department and report to HHS Chief of Staff Brian Harrison.
"Paul is a highly regarded health care and policy leader whom I have… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - July 9, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Paul J. Gough Source Type: news
Sudan: Mango - the Queen of Fruits
[SudaNow] Mango: This fleshy, pleasantly tasting equatorial fruit, is grown everywhere in the Sudan. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 27, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Here ’s Everything You Need to Know About Gut Health
It’s hardly news that the gastrointestinal tract is important to human health: It transports food from the mouth to the stomach, converts it into absorbable nutrients and stored energy, and shuttles waste back out of the body. If you don’t properly nourish yourself, you don’t live. It’s that simple.
But in recent years, scientists have discovered that the GI system has an even bigger, more complex job than previously appreciated. It’s been linked to numerous aspects of health that have seemingly nothing to do with digestion, from immunity to emotional stress to chronic illnesses, including can...
Source: TIME: Health - March 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amanda MacMillan Tags: Uncategorized Research Source Type: news
Mango salsa
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Source: MayoClinic.com Full Feed - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mango Health teams up with specialty pharmacy Diplomat
Mango Health will offer a custom white-label version of its app for high-risk patients taking specialty pharmaceuticals. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - March 5, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Mango: Administration will push harder for health care price transparency
Mango said CMS was studying the issue. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 12, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Paul J. Gough Source Type: news
Boy, four, is 'slowly being killed' by a MANGO-sized tumour
Simbarashe Dande, from Murewa - 47miles (75km) north east of Harare in Zimbabwe, cannot eat solid food and struggles to breathe because of the gigantic tumour. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mango Health founder Jason Oberfest joins Apple's health team
The hire could signal an interest from Apple in the medication adherence space. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - December 7, 2018 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Mango Health's appoints president as CEO, Akili hires new medical head and more digital health hires
Also: Greenway Health appoints new CISO; DocuTAP hires SVP of product, EVP of people and culture. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - November 26, 2018 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Juul Labs to Pull Sweet E-Cig Flavors to Curb Youth Use Juul Labs to Pull Sweet E-Cig Flavors to Curb Youth Use
Juul Labs Inc, the U.S. market leader for electronic cigarettes, said on Tuesday it will pull popular flavors such as mango, cucumber and fruit from retail store shelves in an effort to reduce surging teenage use of its products.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
JUUL pulls flavored e-cigs from shelves, shutters social media
JUUL Labs is shutting down its social media accounts and removing non-tobacco, non-menthol flavors of its e-cigarettes from all of its 90,000-plus retail store partners in an effort to curb underage use of its products.
Juul said it stopped filling store orders Tuesday for mango, fruit, creme and cucumber pods and will resume sales only to retailers that scan IDs and take other steps to verify a buyer is at least 21, the Associated Press reports. It said it will continue to sell menthol and mint… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - November 14, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Anne Stych Source Type: news
Juul Labs to pull sweet e-cig flavors to curb youth use
Juul Labs Inc, the U.S. market leader for electronic cigarettes, said on Tuesday it will pull popular flavors such as mango, cucumber and fruit from retail store shelves in an effort to reduce surging teenage use of its products. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
FDA signals crackdown on flavored cigars to reduce youth tobacco use
The FDA commissioner's comments came on the same day that Juul Labs announced that it would stop selling most of its flavored e-cigarette pods -- specifically, mango, fruit, creme and cucumber -- in 90,000 retail outlets. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - November 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laurie McGinley Source Type: news
Juul Labs to pull sweet e-cigarette flavors to curb youth use
Juul Labs Inc, the U.S. market leader for electronic cigarettes, said Tuesday it will pull popular flavors such as mango, cucumber and fruit from retail store shelves in an effort to reduce surging teenage use of its products. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
