Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca Health, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News was invited to host and ...

Heidi Strehl worked as a pharmacy technician at a Rite Aid in the Pittsburgh suburbs for more than 16 years. She loved her customers, enjoyed her job and thought of her co-workers as family. But this ...

When the one pharmacy in town closed in Antwerp, a small community of about 1,600 in northwest Ohio, in September, it affected Candace Pidgeon in two ways. The pharmacy tech lost her job at the ...

PICKERINGTON, Ohio — For years, Sharon Kitchen and her husband, Mike, went to the same pharmacy just 2 miles from their house in this suburb of Columbus. But last June, their pharmacist, Nate Hux, ...

Pharmacy technicians are medical professionals who work with pharmacists to help patients and make sure they get the best care. They often are the people who find, package, and label prescribed ...

Retail pharmacy chains such as Walgreens and CVS have pivoted from years of endless store expansions to shuttering hundreds of locations across the U.S. to shore up profits. Among the biggest problems ...

CVS is closing 900 stores. Rite-Aid is closing 500. Walgreens announced Tuesday it plans to close 1,200 stores, meaning 1 in 7 will disappear. What is going on with America’s drug stores? Walgreens ...

Big changes are coming to the nation’s 60,000 pharmacies, with Amazon talking about getting into the prescription drug business and the nation’s largest chain, CVS, teaming up with health insurer ...

Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. Credit...Photo illustration by Jens Mortensen for The New York Times Supported by By Rebecca ...

TROY, Mich.: 28 July 2022 — With more than 258.1 million total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine [1] and an estimated 40 million flu vaccinations seasonally [2] dispensed at retail pharmacies, U.S.