MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Parts of the north side of Montgomery are defined by what it has lost: restaurants, grocery stores and a convenient pharmacy, the latter of which closed five years ago. People who still live in the historically Black neighborhood of Newtown, like Sharon Harris, are frustrated. She goes to a different location […]
Military pharmacies have returned to full operations, six weeks after a cyberattack on the nation’s largest commercial prescription processor disrupted normal business at thousands of pharmacies around the world. Following the Feb. 21 hack, Change Healthcare — which verifies whether a customer’s health insurance will help cover the cost of each medication — disconnected its […]
Walgreens is closing one of its Boise stores as the pharmacy giant tries to improve its financial standing. The store, located at the corner of South Federal Way and South Findley Avenue, will shutter by the end of the month, according to a sign on its sliding-glass doors. The store’s last day of business is […]
When it became clear that the only way to keep their four Northern Kentucky independent pharmacies afloat was to siphon money from their personal retirement funds, Jennifer and Erik Grove made a painful decision. It was finally time to call it quits. It was 2021, and after years of tossing solicitation letters in the trash […]
Mexican authorities have shuttered another batch of pharmacies, this time in the coastal town of Ensenada, after seizing medicines that could be contaminated with fentanyl. Mexican marines as well as the nation’s sanitation agency (known by the acronym COFEPRIS) inspected 53 pharmacies in the city and ultimately shut down 31 of them for the “irregular […]
Mexican authorities raided dozens of pharmacies in Ensenada and seized thousands of boxes of pills as part of a broader effort to crack down on drugstores suspected of selling counterfeit and fentanyl-tainted medications. The joint effort by the Mexican navy and federal health authorities is at least the third such operation this year; over the […]