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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Perrigo to Attend the Oppenheimer 25th Annual Consumer Growth & E-Commerce Conference
DUBLIN, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO), a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products, today announced that President and CEO Patrick Lockwood-Taylor and CFO Eduardo Bezerra are scheduled to present at the Oppenheimer 25th Annual Consumer Growth & E-Commerce Conference, being conducted virtually on Tuesday, June 10 at 9 AM ET. Interested parties can access the webcast on the Perrigo website at About Perrigo Perrigo Company plc is a leading pure-play self-care company with over a century of experience in providing high-quality health and wellness solutions to consumers primarily in North America and Europe. As a pioneer in the over-the-counter (OTC) self-care market, Perrigo offers trusted self-care solutions that can be used without the need for a prescription, ensuring accessibility and choice for consumers across molecules, dosage forms, and value tiers. Perrigo's unique business model leverages its complementary businesses, where cash-generative store brand private label offerings fuel investments for leading brands, including Opill®, Mederma®, Compeed®, EllaOne®, and Solpadeine®. For more information, visit Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes, and the matters discussed in Perrigo's presentation at the Oppenheimer 25th Annual Consumer Growth & E-Commerce Conference will include certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995', as amended. Forward-looking statements relate to future events and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors—many of which beyond the Company's control—that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. Interested persons are urged to consult the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, available at for a discussion of the Company's business and financial condition and certain material trends, risks, uncertainties and other factors relating thereto, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. Perrigo Investor Contact Bradley Joseph, Vice President, Global Investor Relations & Corporate Communications; (269) 686-3373; e-mail: Nicholas Gallagher, Senior Manager, Global Investor Relations & Corporate Communications; (269) 686-3238, e-mail: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Perrigo Company plc Sign in to access your portfolio
NBC News
18-05-2025
- Health
- NBC News
The morning-after pill is coming to a convenience store near you
Why 24-hour access matters At the same time, some birth control products have become more easily available through online purchasing and over the counter, including Opill, which last year became the first non prescription birth control pill available in the United States. New methods of birth control have also come to market, including long-acting implants, patches and Phexxi, a hormone-free vaginal gel. Emergency contraception is available without a prescription, a fact that many women don't know, according to a poll conducted by KFF, a health policy research organization. Indeed, half of women who live in states where abortion is banned either incorrectly think emergency contraceptive pills are illegal in their state or say they are unsure, the poll found. Still, younger women are more likely to report that they've used emergency contraception: 44% of women ages 15 to 24 and 40% of women ages 25 to 34. And online data shows that searches for emergency contraception often happen later at night, Voyten said. 'And 7-Eleven is open,' she said. Megan Kavanaugh, a principal research scientist with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group, said 99% of women of childbearing age in the United States have used some form of contraception, including natural family planning, 'over the course of their lifetime,' a trend that holds true across all demographics, including religious beliefs. Less than 1 percent of women use fertility awareness based methods. And the use of emergency contraception has also risen in recent decades. Researchers at KFF found that one-third of women ages 15 to 49 who have ever had sex with a male in the United States have used it. 'People use EC for a lot of reasons,' Kavanaugh said. 'The condom fails, they haven't been using birth control or they may need to use it after sexual assault.' Cost, however, can be a barrier for some women, she said, noting that over-the-counter products like Plan B One Step — another emergency contraceptive — can cost upwards of $50. 'That's a prohibitive price point,' she said. Condoms are inexpensive but usually outside the control of women having sex, Kavanaugh said. 'It's all part of the misogyny that we live in that we price products differently,' she said. Cadence's emergency contraception is priced around $25 per box for a one-time dose. A study of consumer behavior conducted by the manufacturer, Cadence, found that women questioned the quality and efficacy of a birth control product priced below $15, but products priced more than $30 were prohibitively expensive. Polling shows that a broad majority of Americans support contraception and oppose efforts to restrict its access. Stored in lockboxes or behind the counter Still, getting help in preventing pregnancy can often be a challenge, said Dr. Amanda Bryson, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at the University of California, San Francisco and an assistant professor of pediatrics. Bryson, who provides care to adolescents and young adults and is not affiliated with Cadence, said that those barriers can include a need for confidentiality, as well as a lack of transportation, financial means or health insurance. And even though emergency contraception is available without a prescription or age requirement, pharmacists often stock the product in lockboxes or behind the counter, requiring teenagers and young adults to seek out a store clerk. In convenience stores, the pills are generally stocked next to condoms, not behind the counter. Finding emergency contraception in rural areas can also be difficult, particularly in towns without a pharmacy or a drugstore. Bryson recalled one patient who called, after-hours, seeking emergency contraception. After counseling the patient, who had insurance, Bryson called in a prescription to a local pharmacy, but it was out of stock. Another pharmacy, however, had over-the-counter medication — for $50. The patient bought the pills there. 'It shouldn't be this hard,' Bryson said. 'This young adult had information about EC, she had a physician who could counsel her, she knew she could reach me after hours, she had insurance, she was able to drive, and this was still an immense barrier.' She added: 'In situations similar to this one, having a lower cost pill in convenience stores with expanded hours could be really meaningful.' 'Taking care of your sexual health should not be stigmatized,' Bryson said, adding that 'availability and visibility' of birth control for women on convenience store shelves can help combat stigma. Cadence officials say they would like to expand their market on college campuses, and perhaps even to vending machines, noting that it is a 'very profitable product.' And though Plan B, a widely known emergency contraception brand, is not available in convenience stores, the medication is distributed at CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and other retailers and can be delivered by UberEats, Doordash, and Instacart, according the company. While retailers in some areas 'have objections about bringing in the product,' those concerns are often overtaken by demand, Voyten said. 'There are some who say, 'I don't believe in this,'' she said. ''But I know my customer needs it.''
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
"Hope is an action": In red states, activists refuse to surrender on reproductive rights
Reproductive rights advocates in southern states are embroiled in a fight against severe restrictions on abortion access and a flurry of state-level GOP efforts to create more of them. They say President Donald Trump's second term threatens to make those obstacles worse — and they're calling on the rest of the country to back them up. In a handful of states across the country, many of which are in the south, abortion is almost completely illegal with few exceptions, the most common being when necessary to protect the pregnant person's health. In other southern states, abortion access is extremely limited with restrictions imposed before most people know they are pregnant. Republican state lawmakers in Arkansas, South Carolina, West Virginia and others have introduced legislation this session seeking to further curtail residents' reproductive rights, including bills criminalizing education on abortion options, striking down exceptions to existing abortion bans and requiring anti-abortion views in sex education. But as state GOP lawmakers level these proposals — fueled, in part, by the Trump administration's uncertain yet hostile approach to national abortion rights — grassroots activists have supercharged their fight against this latest push, stepping up work to ensure their communities have the access to healthcare and comprehensive education they feel they deserve. "We will not stop trying. We will not give up. We will continue our efforts," said Brittaney Stockton, the policy and growth strategist for the Arkansas Abortion Support Network. "This go around, somehow — even though it feels harder; it feels way worse than it was last time — I am finding hope in the community, within the communities who are constantly fighting everything that they throw at us. We believe that hope is an action, and we're not going to stop." Arkansas law bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy except when necessary to "save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency." The state also makes performing or attempting to perform an abortion punishable by a fine of up to $100,000 or a maximum of ten years in prison. Powered by donations from community members, the Arkansas Abortion Support Network challenges that restrictive policy by helping Arkansas travel out of state to access abortion care, disseminating information about safe ways to obtain an abortion and providing products like Plan B and Opill to help people who want to prevent pregnancies. The group also partners with other grassroots organizations to mobilize around restrictive bills in the Arkansas Legislature and shares educational materials about their potential harms on social media. In that way, the organization fights back "by just existing," argued AASN executive director Karen Musick. "The fact we're here, the fact we continue to help people every day — that's how we are helping." The AASN has most recently been monitoring the progression of the Baby Olivia Act through the state legislature. That bill would require public schools to fold a "human fetal growth and development discussion" into their health classes starting in sixth grade and show students a video created by anti-abortion group Live Action depicting "the process of fertilization and every stage of human development inside the uterus." The video, Stockton argued, fails to include a sex education component and instead offers "misleading" context in an effort to teach pubescent children that a fetus is a human life. Its passage would also place the responsibility of a pregnancy on children in a state with abstinence- and shame-based sex education, the nation's highest population-adjusted rate of reported child sexual abuse cases and third highest rate of registered sex offenders, she said. "It's problematic because you're further shaming kids that might end up in a situation where they were assaulted and become pregnant and they don't even understand how they got from point A to point B," Stockton told Salon. Stockton said that being a mother of three girls made her want to voice opposition before the Senate in a committee hearing on Feb. 26. In her remarks, she argued that truly protecting the state's children would be equipping them with the tools they need to recognize and resist predatory behavior through a comprehensive sex education program. "Those children that you speak of that become pregnant, they did not choose to become pregnant as children," Stockton testified, raising her gaze from her prepared remarks to the lawmakers before her. "They do not deserve that, and we need to teach them how to remain safe." The bill, which has passed in other states, failed in committee for the second time in the state Senate on Feb. 28. But Stockton and Musick said the organization expects the lead sponsor, Republican state Rep. Mary Bentley, to reintroduce the bill for a third and final time before the legislative session ends. Still, Musick said, they're confident they can defeat the legislation again. "Republicans have a super majority again in the state of Arkansas. The fact that opposition was there to disrupt that felt powerful, and it felt powerful to a lot of people," Musick said. "We think it's a huge victory that we're able to talk about it enough and get people there to talk about these bills." In South Carolina, abortion rights advocates are also working to stave off a spate of bills progressing in their state legislature aimed at further restricting access to abortion and criminalizing providers, educators and patients over the care. The Women's Rights Empowerment Network is monitoring three such bills, including HB 3457, which seeks to upend the state's current six-week ban by prohibiting all abortions in the state except in medical emergencies and striking exceptions for rape, incest and fetal anomaly. Also on the group's radar is that proposal's related bill in the state Senate, SB 323, which would also prohibit medication abortions and criminalize the act of providing information on how to obtain an abortion by phone, web or another mode of communication to a pregnant person. Another bill, HB 3537, seeks to classify abortion as a homicide and open abortion patients up to murder charges. "All of these bills are cruel and do nothing to protect the people of South Carolina, [and] only to seek to control their bodies and their extremely personal decisions about their lives and well-being," argued Amalia Luxardo, WREN's CEO. SB 323 is especially alarming, she said, because it would criminalize her organization and others' work to educate people on their options for reproductive care. To fight back against these proposals, Luxardo said that WREN creates materials informing South Carolinians on the legislation their lawmakers are proposing and provides call and email templates they can use to directly voice their opposition. The organization also lobbies at the statehouse weekly, sharing stories with elected officials about how their policies affect constituents' everyday lives. Ahead of a Tuesday hearing for HB 3457, the group mobilized more than 750 people to email or call legislators with opposition to the bill and confirmed some 40 volunteers to testify before the legislature. "We are fighting like hell in South Carolina for reproductive rights," Luxardo said. "Our people deserve access to essential healthcare and the ability to make their own decisions about their lives and their futures. We refuse to be silent, and we will continue to defend abortion access in the state." That determination, she added, has become even more pronounced in the wake of Trump reassuming the presidency. While Trump repeatedly said during the 2024 election cycle that restricting abortion access at the federal level would not be a priority, activists are skeptical that he will keep his word now that he's in office. Trump's campaign-trail ambivalence on the issue followed his long-held anti-abortion stance, characterized by his first-term efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, flirting with a national ban and later taking credit for the Supreme Court's 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade. His first-week blast of executive orders didn't include the national abortion ban that advocates feared they might see, but the president has still made efforts to restrict access or bolster anti-abortion sentiment since returning to the Oval Office in January. One executive order aimed to end "forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion" domestically, while another anti-trans action he signed included language implicating fetal personhood. The president also pardoned nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists on his fourth day in office. Margaret Chapman Pomponio, executive director of the reproductive health and justice organization WV Free, told Salon that Trump's presidency and "authoritarian approach to governing" has also placed activists and residents of West Virginia, another state with a near-total abortion ban, on high alert. "All are scared, angry, embarrassed — just like so many across the country," she told Salon. "We may be considered a deep-red state, but that didn't fully happen until 2014. A little over 10 years ago. So there are still lots of pockets of progressivism, and plenty of people ready to fight the rollback of our rights." In West Virginia, abortion is prohibited through all stages of pregnancy except in the case of a medical emergency, an ectopic pregnancy or a fetus that's not medically viable. More exceptions exist for survivors of rape and incest, who can obtain abortion care up to eight weeks into their pregnancies but only if they first report to law enforcement. For minors who have survived sexual assault or incest and reported to authorities or got medical treatment, they have until 14 weeks to obtain an abortion. Pomponio said WV Free's team is currently organizing to combat more than a dozen bills in the state legislature seeking to further restrict the state's ban. One such bill, HB 2712, would strike the state's exemptions for survivors of rape and incest, including exemptions for minors. The group has also ramped up abortion trainings to teach West Virginians they can safely manage abortion at home with pills, shared information on abortion funds that offer practical and financial support to those seeking assistance, partnered with nurses to offer education on its birth control program and connected people with reproductive health, rights, and justice resources at public presentations across the state. Last summer, the organization led a public education campaign on their options should they have an unintended pregnancy complete with a billboard. While Pomponio said the campaign was widely successful — more than doubling traffic to WV Free's website with easily accessible resources — lawmakers responded this session by introducing a bill prohibiting billboards that "display messages about the availability of abortion in bordering states" or name healthcare providers that perform them. "Since Dobbs and the subsequent abortion ban, WV FREE became laser focused on the needs of our communities in the new landscape. And frankly, the political situation and health care deserts have only gotten worse," Pomponio said. "We know we cannot go about business as usual because we are in extraordinary times." Though West Virginia overwhelmingly elected Trump with 70% of the vote in the 2024 presidential contest, its political landscape — and attitude toward abortion — is much more complex than it seems, she said. The state was, until 2018, one of just 17 in the country to allocate state funding for abortion care under Medicaid and was, in 2005, one of the first to enact a law ensuring health insurance plans cover contraceptives. Residents of the state are also divided on the state's abortion policy, with 45% of respondents to a September 2024 poll saying they support the ban compared to 44% who oppose it. State lawmakers' push to further restrict abortion access in the state doesn't holistically represent the will of West Virginians, Pomponio said, also pointing to the "Trump effect" among West Virginian voters, which shows their overwhelming support for the president's policies doesn't align with the issues that most concern them: education, child care, communities with clean drinking water, good paying jobs. Because of that, she said, she urges the rest of the country to keep faith in red states like West Virginia. "We are worth investment and compassion and respect," she said. "If given the resources, we could be the learning lesson for other tough places — when we show people how we reconnect with the ideals of fairness, shared prosperity, and healthy and safe communities for our families." Musick echoed that sentiment. She added that she wished the rest of the country understood that Arkansans are and feel like the Americans that they are, deserving of the same healthcare that residents of blue states receive. "They deserve access to all the best," she said, offering a warning to the rest of the nation. "We are all citizens of the United States — when they start taking away the rights of some, understand they're coming for the rights of all." Still, Musick said, hope is currently guiding her organization in its fight to protect and expand abortion access in Arkansas — and elsewhere. In fact, she said, it's become AASN's new mantra. "We're trying to lean into 'Hope is an action,' because that's been the piece that so many of our supporters have been missing," she said. "We feel hope when we're surrounded by each other, so we're working very hard to make the community feel strong because that's where we're going to find hope."
