Rite Aid Corp. is providing free oral health guides in stores and online and offering wellness+ loyalty program rewards for purchases of oral care products. The drug store chain said Tuesday that the campaign, launched this week and running to Sept.
Bartell Drugs next week is launching its "School Tools for Kids in Need" school supplies donation drive at its 58 drug stores.
CVS/pharmacy is enabling customers to digitally send the savings from e-mail coupons to their ExtraCare Rewards Program cards.
Upsher-Smith Laboratories Inc. has been recognized as a Manufacturer of the Year by AmerisourceBergen Corp. Upsher-Smith said Monday that it received AmerisourceBergen’s Manufacturer of the Year Award for branded pharmaceutical sales under $500 million.
Nycomed US Inc. has appointed Brian Markison as president and chief executive officer of the newly created stand-alone company emerging from the acquisition of Nycomed A/S by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
CVS Caremark Corp. reported that its MinuteClinic retail health clinic subsidiary has surpassed 10 million patient visits. The company said Monday that the 10 millionth patient was seen at a MinuteClinic in Quincy, Mass.
With consumers more willing to get a flu shot outside a doctor’s office setting, CVS Caremark Corp. aims to give them even more reason to do so.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has provided input to a Senate committee as it reviews the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA).
MinuteClinic has unveiled a collaboration with the Henry Ford Health System that aims to improve access to health care in metropolitan Detroit.
Solid front-end business offset a virtually flat prescription count as Rite Aid Corp. posted increased same-store sales in July. The drug store chain said Thursday that for the four weeks ended July 23, same-store sales edged up 1.9% versus a year earlier, slightly higher than the 1.
H.D. Smith has reorganized its national operations and announced that senior executive Harvey Tanenbaum plans to retire Sept. 1. The pharmaceutical distributor said Wednesday that its market areas are now organized into West and East regions.
This year, Publix Super Markets plans to provide free diabetes screenings at more than 800 of its stores. The Southeast supermarket chain said Wednesday that the walk-in diabetes screenings through its pharmacies include a free blood glucose test and diabetes educational material.
Mary Sammons, chairman at Rite Aid Corp., has been appointed to the board of directors at Magellan Health Services Inc.
Access Community Health Network is working with Walgreen Co. to provide enhanced pharmacy and health care services to underserved neighborhoods in the Chicago area.
CVS Caremark Corp. is slated to name Macy’s Inc. executive Mark Cosby as president of CVS/pharmacy, Chain Drug Review has learned. Cosby, previously president of stores at Macy’s, fills the vacancy created when CVS Caremark named Larry Merlo president and chief operating officer in May 2010.
The National Community Pharmacists Association has expressed concern over an Oregon state plan amendment that would renege on a pact the state previously reached with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and cut Medicaid pharmacy reimbursement for the second time this year.
