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  • CVS Health Research Institute: Home infusion both economically and clinically viable

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. - A new study by the CVS Health Research Institute found that home infusion care is safe, clinically effective and improves quality of life while reducing health care costs when compared to infusion care delivered in a hospital or clinic. 
     

  • American Cancer Society, CVS Health embark on 3-year, $3.6 million initiative to create smoke-free campuses

    ATLANTA - The American Cancer Society and CVS Health on Wednesday announced a three-year, $3.6 million initiative to provide grants to 125 institutions of higher learning to help accelerate and expand the number of 100% smoke- and tobacco-free college and university campuses throughout the United States. 
     

  • Two wholesalers named to this year’s InformationWeek Elite 100

    SAN FRANCISCO - Two wholesalers - H.D. Smith and McKesson - were named this week to this year’s InformationWeek Elite 100 – a list of the top business technology innovators in the U.S.
     

  • Walgreens, APhA partner on substance abuse education program

    WASHINGTON - Walgreens and the American Pharmacists Association on Tuesday announced a collaboration that expands Walgreens efforts to fight prescription drug abuse. Through this collaboration, the APhA Institute on Alcoholism and Drug Dependencies will continue to offer a substance abuse education program for pharmacists and student pharmacists.
     

  • Walgreens adds New Jersey to list of states where naloxone is available without Rx

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - New Jersey is the latest state where Walgreens is making naloxone, an opioid antidote, available without a prescription in accordance with state pharmacy regulations.
     
    Naloxone is now more accessible and easier to obtain in more than 190 Walgreens pharmacies throughout New Jersey.
     

  • MinuteClinic opens seven locations in Northern Virginia

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. - MinuteClinic, the retail medical clinic of CVS Health, has opened new locations inside Target stores in Northern Virginia. The clinics – located in seven stores in Chantilly, Fairfax, Falls Church, Gainesville, Leesburg, Manassas and Sterling – have been rebranded and converted to MinuteClinic. 
     
    There are now 31 MinuteClinic locations in Northern Virginia and 52 in the DC Metro area, including clinics in CVS Pharmacy stores. 
     

  • Same-stores Q1 sales up 6.3% across Shoppers Drug Mart

    BRAMPTON, Ontario - Loblaw Companies on Wednesday posted $8.1 billion, an increase of 3.3%, for its first quarter ended March 26, 2016. Retail segment sales were $7.9 billion. 
     
    Drug retail (Shoppers Drug Mart) same-store sales growth was 6.3%, with same-store pharmacy sales increasing by 4.2% and same-store front store sales increasing by 8.2%. The timing of Easter had a positive impact on front store same-store sales of approximately 1.9%.
     

  • Q1 comp sales up 3.3% across Publix

    LAKELAND, Fla. — Publix’s sales for the first quarter of 2016 totaled $8.7 billion, the grocer reported Monday, a 4.5% increase from the same period last year. Comparable-store sales for the first quarter of 2016 increased 3.3%. The company estimates sales increased 1.2% due to the effect of the Easter holiday being in the first quarter of 2016. 
     
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