Walgreen Co. and Rite Aid Corp. continued their same-store sales resurgence in May, which industry analysts said could herald improving results for the drug store sector overall. At Walgreens, comparable-store sales climbed 5.6% year over year in May, up from a 3.
Navarro Discount Pharmacy has added e-commerce capabilities to its Navarro.com website, enabling customers outside south Florida, nationwide and internationally to take advantage of the value proposition in its stores.
Two of the industry’s largest drug store chains have initiated efforts to help their customers stay safe in the sun this summer. Earlier this month Rite Aid Corp.
CVS Caremark Corp.’s MinuteClinics are offering a free diabetes monitoring package this summer.
Steve Pemberton has been named divisional vice president of diversity and inclusion at Walgreen Co. In this role, he also becomes the company’s first chief diversity officer.
Retiring AmerisourceBergen Corp. chariman and chief executive officer R. David Yost has received the 2011 Nexus Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Healthcare Distribution Management Association’s (HDMA) Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research.
The annual Fortune 500 listing of the largest publicly traded U.S. corporations has been published, and community pharmacy, while not a major presence, is nonetheless adequately represented.
Medication adherence has emerged as a hot-button issue in health care.
The Adherence Estimator, a patient segmentation tool developed by researchers at Merck & Co. to help pharmacists and other health care professionals identify and assist individuals prone to medication nonadherence, has proved its worth in a variety of practice settings since its debut last year.
London Drugs is expressing thanks to the Vancouver Police Department after rioters ransacked one of its stores in the city following the Vancouver Canucks loss in the National Hockey League Stanley Cup final.
Lannett Co. has received Food and Drug Administration approval for its 505(b)(2) New Drug Application (NDA) for morphine sulfate oral solution. Lannett said Friday that it expects to begin shipping the pain relief drug soon.
Former Unilever executive Michael Polk has been appointed president and chief executive officer at Newell Rubbermaid. The general merchandise maker said late Thursday that Polk, 50, is slated to take the helm as CEO on July 18.
In the wake of a court decision, Mylan Inc. plans to roll out enteric-coated budesonide capsules, a medication for Crohn’s disease. The company said late Thursday that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled that its Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community Pharmacists Association highlighted the role of pharmacy in testimony for a Senate hearing on reform of health care entitlements.
The pharmaceutical industry chalked up a pair of legal victories yesterday in two rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. In one decision, Sorrell v.
Under a partnership, Centrix Pharmaceutical Inc. plans to promote CutisPharma Inc.’s FIRST Progesterone VGS vaginal suppository compounding kits.
