US medicine spending shows rare dip Total U.S. spending on prescription medicines declined last year, a first in more than half a century. The dip was 1 percent, to $325.8 billion — a 3.5 percent drop after accounting for population growth and economic expansion, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. More
CVS CEO's Pay Jumps 44% Total pay for CVS Caremark's chief executive and president, Larry Merlo, jumped 44% to $20.3 million last year, according to an SEC filing. More
Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings While guns have been a common denominator in mass slayings at schools by teens, there’s another familiar element that seems increasingly to be minimized. Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, according to British psychiatrist Dr. More
Poll: Medicare prescription drug program popular Here's one program candidates aren't likely to mess with: The Medicare prescription drug plan. A new poll sponsored by a health care group shows that 90% of seniors are satisfied with the program known as Medicare Part D, and approval has constantly risen since the plan came on line in 2006. More
Walgreen's Profit Slides 55% Walgreen's fiscal-fourth-quarter earnings fell 55% as less customer traffic at the drugstore chain contributed to a steeper-than-expected sales decline. More
Pharmacy Workers Approve New 3-Year Contract, Ending Labor Dispute with CVS CVS pharmacists, clerks and technicians voted Friday to ratify a new three-year contract with the pharmacy. The 7,000-plus employees, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, reached ... 11/9/2024 - 12:34 am | View Link
U. S. automakers are on track to introduce 15 new EV models in 2025.
Even though sales of electric vehicles aren’t growing as fast as in past years and President-elect Donald Trump may ditch tax credits for EV buyers, automakers are moving ahead with new models that should appeal to mainstream buyers.
High on the priority list for attendants is being paid for hours worked, not just when the aircraft is in motion.
Alaska Airlines flight attendant Rebecca Owens works 10 hours a day but only gets paid for half that time—a legacy of a common U. S. airline policy to pay cabin crew members only when planes are in motion.
One of the first of its kind, the settlement also mandates that SafeRent Solutions make adjustments to its screening products.
Mary Louis’s excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her tenancy.
The retail has chain filed a fifth notice of additional closures as part of its Chapter 11 process, with stores impacted in California, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere.
Big Lots is closing an additional 19 locations, adding to hundreds of stores that it has shuttered as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.
Fewer rate cuts would likely mean continued high mortgage rates.
Just a few weeks ago, the path ahead for the Federal Reserve looked straightforward: With inflation cooling and the job market slowing, the Fed appeared on track to steadily cut interest rates. In September, its officials predicted that they would reduce their benchmark rate four times next year, on top of three rate cuts this year.
U. S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.
The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.