The abrupt resignation of Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) president and chief executive officer Robert McDonald late last month seems to many to have been a reaction to pressure from one of the company’s largest shareholders upset with the poor performance of P&G’s stock.
The budding partnership between Walgreen Co., Alliance Boots GmbH and AmerisourceBergen Corp. has taken several steps forward, with regulators in the United States and Europe clearing the way for the first two companies to assume an equity stake in the third.
Women and nonwhites taking statins are more likely to be nonadherent than other patient groups, recent research from CVS Caremark Corp. and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows.
For the first time in more than six years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has a permanent leader.
New rules from two federal agencies could lead to 2 million fewer people than previously estimated gaining health coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said last month.
Patients have been very satisfied with their pharmacies for four years running, and the vast majority will continue filling prescriptions at their current pharmacy.
Rite Aid Corp. has refashioned its board of directors. In the wake of three of its 10 members stepping down, the company reduced the size of its board to eight and named former Blue Shield of California chairman and chief executive officer Bruce Bodaken as its newest director. Bodaken, 61, spent
Kerr Drug has introduced a new synchronized prescription refill service. Called Simplify My Meds, the service utilizes Kerr’s new central-fill center in Raleigh to make getting prescriptions filled easier for customers while freeing up pharmacists to spend more time with patients.
Many proposed changes to policies governing pharmacy compounding are commendable, but some aspects of Senate legislation on the practice may have unintended consequences, says the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
Retail pharmacy chains quickly responded to the devastating tornado in Moore, Okla., late last month. The day after the storm tore through the suburb of Oklahoma City, Walgreen Co.
CVS/pharmacy has launched the Total Home private label home care brand.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be among the guest speakers at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ Total Store Expo (TSE) later this year.
The first NACDS Marketplace Conference, held so many years ago in Minneapolis, attracted a handful of the curious and the committed, the workers and the wonderers, the doubters and the dutiful, all of whom traipsed to the northern tier of the United States to discern whether anything new was about t
Chain drug store operators and other mass market retailers have much to contemplate as they look to the future.
