Changing attitudes around menopause treatment have driven up demand for hormone therapy.
Category: Drugstores
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Why Estrogen Patches For Menopause Are So Hard to Find
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Rite Aid Closes Its Remaining Stores
The company said it had closed its remaining 89 stores this week after struggling for years to stay in business and filing for bankruptcy protection twice.
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How Trump’s Online Drugstore May Affect Your Drug Costs
President Trump and top health officials announced a deal with Pfizer to try to lower Medicaid prices, and a website to help consumers buy drugs directly from manufacturers.
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F.D.A. Official Overruled Scientists on Wide Access to Covid Shots
The agency’s staff scientists pointed out how Covid was still unpredictable and posed a threat to toddlers, but the official decided to restrict shots only to children with risk factors.
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F.D.A. Approves Covid Shots With New Restrictions
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
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New CVS App Lets Customers Unlock Cabinets to Pick Up Products
The company said the unlocking function, part of a pilot program in New York City, will be expanded this year.
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Seek to Break Up Giant Health Care Conglomerates
New legislation would force UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna to each sell their pharmacies within three years.
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The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business
The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.
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CVS Ousts Karen Lynch as C.E.O. and Shares Fall
Shares of the health care conglomerate dropped after the sudden departure of Karen Lynch and a downbeat update on the state of the company’s finances.
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On Drug Prices, Harris Pushes for Deeper Cuts While Trump Offers Few Specifics
Both have campaigned for lower prescription costs. Kamala Harris has promised to expand President Biden’s policies. Donald Trump is a wild card.
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F.T.C. Accuses Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices
The case takes aim at the major pharmacy benefit managers, agency officials said, claiming that they favored more expensive insulin products and forced patients to pay more.