The law of supply and demand is catching up with the emerging retail health clinic business. With high-profile chains like CVS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart projecting rapid growth for clinics in their stores, supermarkets that hope to keep up are...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Rosauers Supermarkets here and a Neptune, N.J., ShopRite store, which is part of the Wakefern Food Corp. cooperative based in Elizabeth, N.Y., have opened in-store convenient care clinics.
While the market for nonprescription drug sales grew at an overall rate of 2.6%, Rx-to-OTC switches like Plan B and Prilosec, new products in personal lubricants, and cold medications outperformed the market average by large margins, according to...
Frustrated by repeated contaminated shipments, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced a public warning on farmed seafood imported from China.
The American Medical Association reported yesterday that it will call for investigations into potential conflicts of interest posed by joint ventures between store-based health clinics and pharmacy chains.
Several physician groups at the annual American Medical Association meeting said Sunday that the AMA should seek a ban on retail clinics, according to a report in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune.
Citing strong consumer demand, Tyson Foods has announced that all of its Tyson-brand fresh chicken products will be produced from birds raised without the use of antibiotics. In addition, the nation's largest meat company expects to convert its...