Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain by revenue, posted a 14 percent increase in third-quarter profit as sales of generic drugs rose and the company gained customers from a new Medicare prescription plan.
Net income climbed to $469.2 million, or 46 cents a share, from $411 million, or 40 cents, a year earlier. Revenue in […]
Pierre Foods, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio is recalling all production codes of their “Fast Bites Spicy Breaded Chicken” and the “Fast Bites BBQ Chicken” sandwiches because the bread used in the sandwiches may contain undeclared milk ingredients. Individuals with allergies or sensitivity to milk run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they […]
For the drug industry, today may be the day the floodgates burst.
This is the day that Zocor, the second-best selling drug in the country, loses patent protection, opening the way for cheaper generic versions–potentially saving consumers and health plans billions while cutting into sales for drugmaker Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and […]
• Hongjun Song, an assistant professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, was recently chosen for a McKnight Scholar Award by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
Song will receive $75,000 in research funding each year for the next three years to study how stem cells renew themselves, and how adult nerve […]
One needs to become as dirty as wild rats and mice to have a stronger immune system to ward off common allergies and autoimmune diseases, according to the news outlets who are basing their opinion on a new animal study. If what the news outlets are true, millions of Americans would have found a simple […]
22-year old Tyler Ames of 625 McNabb Street was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with one count of theft under $5,000. It is alleged that on the 13th of June the accused attempted to leave the IDA Drug Store with unpaid merchandise including allergy medication.
The accused was apprehended by Station Mall Security and turned over […]
(CBS) NEW YORK Charlotte was addicted to over-the-counter nose drops.
“It felt great. You could just breathe!” she said. “There was always one in the car, a coat pocket, the glove compartment, one or two in the purse, always one in the suitcase.”
Sprays and drops like Afrin and Neosynephrine are used by millions of Americans for […]
By THERESA AGOVINO;, AP Business Writer Thu May 25, 6:07 PM ET
NEW YORK - The marketers of the world‘s second-largest selling drug dodged a major threat to their revenues two months ago by reaching a deal to keep a generic competitor at bay until at least 2011.
“We want to have a high level […]
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Allergy sufferers — especially those living in Lancaster, a county notorious for allergies and sinus ailments — like to complain.
Patients at Allergy & Asthma Center on Marietta Avenue — as they drop in for shots, nasal sprays, eye drops and sinus medicines — claim every year that this is the worst […]
By AARON SHAROCKMAN
Published June 1, 2006
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It was as if the hurricanes huddled Thursday, checked the calendar and realized their time had come.
And so, around 3:30 p.m., for the first time most anyone can remember, it rained.
It poured, actually — 3 inches in two hours. More rain than had fallen in all of May. Or April. […]