Month: December 2022

Walgreens sells off more stock to fund Summit Health purchase

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For the second time in as many months, Walgreens Boots Alliance has sold off shares in Pennsylvania-based AmerisourceBergen, this time getting $1 billion that it says it will use, in part, to fund the VillageMD purchase of Summit Health-CityMD. Deerfield-based Walgreens said in a statement Thursday night that it has sold common stock publicly for…

UAE: Pharmacy manager threatens to kill employee, her 8-year-old son; fined Dh10,000

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She files a lawsuit demanding compensation for the material damages she suffered after she was fired and lost her home File photo Published: Wed 7 Dec 2022, 10:27 AM An Arab manager of a pharmacy threatened his colleague with death after she ’caused problems for him’, as he claimed. She filed a complaint against him…

Nausea pills won’t stop pregnancy, concerned Thai pharmacists tell TV

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Thai pharmacists complained to the makers of a soap opera about a scene that could lead viewers to mistake nausea medicine for the morning after pill. In an open letter, Pharmacy Council President Kitti Pitaknitinan took Channel 3 to task over Mud Huajai Superstar for portraying its protagonist going to a drug store for emergency…

Telecom failure crashes Jean Coutu and Brunet pharmacy services

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A pharmacist at a Jean Coutu outlet in Montreal said her store had shut its doors because laboratory software, cash registers and the company phone system were not working. Author of the article: Publishing date: Nov 24, 2022  •  November 24, 2022  •  1 minute read Join the conversation A Jean Coutu pharmacy is seen…