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U.S. drugmaker Perrigo agreed Monday to buy Ireland's Elan for $8.6 billion in a deal that should allow the rapidly growing company to reduce its tax bill and boost its royalty stream.
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Walgreens, the nation's largest drugstore chain, is teaming up with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association on a national campaign to educate the public about state health insurance exchanges.
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Rival drugstore chains continued this week to expand their footprints in retail health with retail clinics. Walgreen Co. announced a new clinic adjacent to Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus, while CVS Caremark Corp. announced a partnership with Parkridge Health System to run seven...
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Walgreen Co.'s fiscal third quarter earnings jumped 16% compared to last year but the performance still missed Wall Street expectations. The Deerfield, Ill., company's stock plunged more than 6% in morning trading Tueday.
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The number of retail health clinics that have been popping up in places like drugstores for years is expected to double by the end of 2015, according to the consulting firm Accenture.
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Federal authorities have reached an $80 million settlement with the Walgreens pharmacy chain over rules violations that allowed tens of thousands of units of powerful painkillers such as oxycodone to illegally wind up in the hands of drug addicts and dealers, officials said Tuesday.
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In terms of revenue and public health needs, annual youth physicals required for sports participation or summer camp attendance may not appear large on the healthcare system's big-picture radar, but they appear to be a growing sore point between primary-care physicians and retailers operating nurse...
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Before the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, almost no pharmacists administered flu vaccines. But last year, pharmacists working for Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. administered 5.5 million flu shots among the 9 million vaccines they delivered.
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Walgreen Co. has expanded the reach of its drugstore clinics beyond treating ankle sprains and sinus infections to handling chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure.
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AmerisourceBergen, a Valley Forge, Pa.-based wholesale drug distribution and services company, plans to sell its contract packaging business to an investor group for $308 million in cash.
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