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Article: Healthways and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Collaborate on Behavioral Support for Weight Control, Smoking Cessation.
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- Business Wire
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- November 6, 2007
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Programs Helps Employers and Employees Improve Health and Get in Better Shape
NASHVILLE, Tenn. & PITTSBURGH -- Healthways (NASDAQ: HWAY) and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (NYSE: GSK) today announced an agreement to collaborate on projects that will use GSK's Consumer Healthcare products in conjunction with behavior change support services from Healthways to improve the overall health of people by addressing the country's two largest risk factors contributing to chronic illness: obesity and smoking.
The combination of Healthways' behavioral support program and GSK Consumer Healthcare's over-the-counter product, alli([R]) (orlistat 60 mg), for ...