Why Your Neighborhood Pharmacy Isn’t So Friendly Anymore
CVS and Walgreens pharmacy employees say they are overworked, understaffed, and more liable to make prescription errors due to the...
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Pharmacy Giant Walgreens Names Tim Wentworth as New CEO
The incoming chief executive faces a tough challenge, with a core business under pressure due to pharmacy-benefit managers such as...
Walgreens Chief Executive Rosalind Brewer Steps Down
Rosalind Brewer has stepped down less than three years after taking the helm of the pharmacy operator. Source link
Walgreens Lowers Financial Outlook Amid Weaker Retail Consumer Spending
The drugstore chain says it will step up cost-cutting measures and boost the long-term profitability of its healthcare business. Source...
Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists
Walgreens WBA 1.56% Boots Alliance Inc. is turning to robots to ease workloads at drugstores as it grapples with a...
Teva Agrees to Settle Opioid Lawsuits for as Much as $4.25 Billion
The proposed settlement is the latest move by a company seeking to resolve the costly litigation. Under the terms, the...
Walmart, Target Show Divergence on Companies’ Abortion Coverage
Employees of Target Corp. have access to health-insurance plans that broadly cover abortion. Walmart health plans don’t cover an abortion...
Kohl’s Ends Talks of Its Sale to Vitamin Shoppe Owner Franchise Group
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CVS, Walmart and Rite Aid Limit Purchases of Plan B Pills After Surge in Demand
Some of the nation’s biggest retailers are rationing over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills as demand spikes following the Supreme Court ruling...
Lawyers Make Final Arguments in Fraud Case Against Former Theranos President
Government prosecutors in the criminal-fraud trial of Theranos Inc.’s former second-in-command, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, made their final pitch to the...
Baby-Formula Shortage Prompts Rationing at Target, Kroger, Walgreens and CVS
The biggest U.S. retailers are rationing baby formula as a recall by the maker of Similac and other popular brands...
Walmart, Kroger Raise Prices of Covid-19 Test Kits
Prices are going up for some of the cheapest and most popular at-home Covid-19 test kits in the U.S. Walmart...
Walgreens, Walmart and CVS Pharmacies Contributed to Opioid Epidemic, Ohio Jury Finds
A federal jury in Cleveland on Tuesday found that the companies owning CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies were liable for...
Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Retailers Vetted Theranos Without Testing Devices
SAN JOSE, Calif.—In 2010, Theranos Inc. was courting two major retailers, hoping to put its laboratory technology in busy pharmacies...
Johnson & Johnson Settles New York Opioid Case for $230 Million
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million to the state of New York to resolve an opioid lawsuit...
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Shot to Be Given Again at Vaccination Sites
Health officials around the country are preparing to resume offering Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ 0.21% Covid-19 vaccine as soon as...
U.S. Seeks to Pause J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Use After Rare Blood-Clot Cases
U.S. health authorities recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine in order to investigate rare...
Starbucks, Target Among Companies to Still Mandate Masks in Texas Despite Lift on Covid-19 Restrictions
Some of the biggest U.S. retail, theater, hotel and restaurant chains say they will continue mandating masks and limiting capacity...
