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Apr 24 2024
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Swisslog appoints Roberts to SVP of sales position – BizWest
BROOMFIELD — Swisslog Healthcare, a company with North American headquarters in Broomfield, has appointed Brian Roberts to the position of senior vice president of sales and services in the medication management business unit. Swisslog produces equipment to transport materials including pharmacy products within health care facilities. Roberts’ experience is in pharmacy automation and business-
BizWestMay 03 2024
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Hims founder offers jobs to anti-Israel protesters, hails their 'moral courage'
The founder and CEO of telehealth and online pharmacy Hims took to social media on Wednesday to encourage anti-Israel protesters on college campuses to continue in those efforts because companies like his will be "eager" to hire them.
Andrew Dudum, who founded Hims in 2017, said anti-Israel campus protesters are making a difference and drew a contrast to other executives who have said
Fox BusinessApr 30 2024
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Walmart Is Shutting Health Centers After Plan to Expand
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, said Tuesday that it was shutting down its health care centers, a network that only last year it said it planned to expand. The retailer said in a blog post that its 51 health centers would close. The centers were next to Supercenter locations. The plans won’t affect the more than 4,600 pharmacies and more than 3,000 vision centers within Walmart stores.
New York Times (News)Apr 19 2024
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Rite Aid closing 3 more Hampton Roads locations as restructuring progresses
The struggling pharmacy chain Rite Aid is closing more Hampton Roads locations, a spokesperson confirmed Friday. The company plans to close two Virginia Beach locations at 1624 Laskin Road and 1808 Salem Road, a Rite Aid spokesperson said in an email. Officials plan to close the Laskin Road store on June 13 and its pharmacy on May 9. The Salem Road location’s pharmacy closed April 18 and
Daily PressMar 03 2021
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Local Pharmacies Need More COVID-19 Vaccines
Community pharmacies say they can play a critical role in COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but they are not receiving as much vaccine proportionately as the pharmaceutical giants.
According to USA Today, one in three of the nation’s 60,000 pharmacies is family owned. They are in a unique position to help local communities that are socially vulnerable, say supporters, and have already earned
Newsmax (News)Apr 27 2024
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Johns Hopkins Hospital helps combat prescription drug misuse through 'take back' initiative
BALTIOMRE -- The old medication that lies around your home can be harmful if it gets in the wrong hands. Johns Hopkins Hospital is taking part in the fight against the misuse of prescription medications, many of which continue to fuel the nation's opioid epidemic. "Medications that folks don't need anymore is one of the ways that can keep them safe if we get it out of the house," Julie
CBS News (Online)Apr 19 2024
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NBA YoungBoy orchestrated 'large scale prescription fraud' scheme, Utah police say
Rapper NBA YoungBoy and several of his associates orchestrated a “large scale prescription fraud ring” to illegally obtain prescription drugs from multiple Utah-area pharmacies, police allege. An affidavit filed Thursday by an officer for the Cache County Sheriff’s Office named the rapper (born Kentrell DeSean Gaulden) as a primary suspect in a months-long scheme that involved posing as a
Los Angeles TimesMar 19 2023
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US officials warn of fake pills sold in Mexico pharmacies that often contain fentanyl
MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning about dangerous counterfeit pills being sold at pharmacies in Mexico that often contain fentanyl. The travel alert posted Friday says Americans should “exercise caution when purchasing medication in Mexico.” Small pharmacies in tourist areas and border regions sometimes sell medications advertised as OxyContin, Percocet, Xanax
The Dallas Morning NewsJun 19 2021
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Shoplifters ruling the roost at big city stores, pharmacy chains
A recent viral shoplifting incident has highlighted trends in parts of the country where offenders at local drugstores rule the roost – in one case, even able to ride through the store on a bike and take a garbage bag full of stolen good as shoppers, and security watched on.
Viral video from earlier this week showed a brazen man riding a bike through a San Francisco Walgreens store
Fox News (Online News)Jul 14 2022
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HHS warns pharmacies denying abortion pills violates anti-discrimination law
The Biden administration is warning retail pharmacies against denying patients abortion-inducing medication, saying this would violate anti-discrimination laws by withholding healthcare from pregnant people.
The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights has released guidelines reinforcing the Obamacare law that warns more than 60,000 U.S. pharmacies against
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