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Pharmacy Spotlight: Don Summerfield of Medly Pharmacy
What are consumers looking for from homeopathy today? As manufacturers, how can we best serve them? An excellent way to get a pulse on our consumers is to look to those who engage closely with them every day—homeopathic pharmacies and other natural retailers. In the second installment of our Pharmacy readm more…
Read MoreThis Year’s AAHP Summit On Hold Until 2023
Now in its fourth year, the AAHP Summit series has gathered the industry for feedback while the HPCUS works through five compliance gaps that challenge manufacturers and FDA inspectors alike. The volunteers for this multiyear project are hard at work on the next phase, which upon completion will be the readm more…
Read MoreA Quick Look Back: 100 Years of AAHP
By Eric Foxman, Pharm. (Ret.), AAHP Secretary A hundred years ago the homeopathic industry was, not surprisingly, vastly different. There was no industrial production, and little marketing to consumers. A homeopathic pharmacy was just that: pharmacies making homeopathic products to serve homeopathic physicians, with little business focus on consumers. One readm more…
Read MoreRetail is Alive and Well
By Mark Land, AAHP President Retailers represent a strong touchpoint within a community, providing goods and services in a way that promotes stability, accessibility to products, and more. The “more” means different things depending on the distribution channel. For example, the grocery channel encourages the health of the community it readm more…
Read MoreWhat is the Future of Retail?
By Ray Petrick What was old is now new, or maybe not as new as we think. If you’re a baby boomer you probably remember that home delivery was commonplace in the 60s. Everybody did it, including the local grocery store, pharmacy, and department store. There was no Internet, computers, readm more…
Read MoreH-E-B to Receive AAHP Integrative Medicine Award
By Alissa Gould The American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists (AAHP) has named H-E-B as the 2022 recipient of their Integrative Medicine Award. This honor recognizes a retailer organization or retailer executive that promotes and sells products that encompass a broad range of therapeutic approaches to achieve optimal health and wellness readm more…
Read MoreHomeopathic Community Responds to BJM Article on Reporting Bias
By Mark Land, AAHP President You may have seen recent reports about a new study claiming that most homeopathic research is of poor quality, with positive results overestimated. AAHP members should be aware of this study, published on March 15 in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. An insightful response from Homeopathy readm more…
Read MoreHomeopathic Community Responds to BJM Article on Reporting Bias
By Mark Land, AAHP President You may have seen recent reports about a new study claiming that most homeopathic research is of poor quality, with positive results overestimated. AAHP members should be aware of this study, published on March 15 in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. An insightful response from Homeopathy readm more…
Read MoreUshering in CPG 400.400 & Modern Homeopathy: Interview with Al Lorman
For those in the AAHP community who don’t know him already, we’re thrilled to introduce you to Alvin J. Lorman. Not only is Al our legal counsel, but he has been working with AAHP and the homeopathic industry since 1985. In fact, Al helped negotiate CPG 400.400, which ushered in readm more…
Read MoreUshering in CPG 400.400 & Modern Homeopathy: Interview with Al Lorman
For those in the AAHP community who don’t know him already, we’re thrilled to introduce you to Alvin J. Lorman. Not only is Al our legal counsel, but he has been working with AAHP and the homeopathic industry since 1985. In fact, Al helped negotiate CPG 400.400, which ushered in readm more…
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