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Aetna teams with CVS to sell Medicare prescription drug plan

NEW YORK - Aetna Inc., the third-largest U.S. health insurer, and CVS Caremark Corp. will offer a Medicare prescription drug plan in the first...

Express Scripts-Medco deal may spur purchases by rivals

WASHINGTON - Express Scripts Inc.’s takeover of Medco Health Solutions Inc. may fuel acquisitions of specialty pharmacy benefit managers by rivals seeking to gain...

Express Scripts to buy Medco for $29.1 billion to gain scale

WASHINGTON - Express Scripts Inc. agreed to buy Medco Health Solutions Inc. for $29.1 billion to become the largest pharmacy-benefits manager in the U.S. The...

Medco may seek acquisition with biggest contract imperiled

NEW YORK - Medco Health Solutions Inc., the pharmacy benefits manager that lost $3.5 billion in contracts since March, may seek acquisitions to make...

CVS wins $3 billion government benefits contract from Medco

NEW YORK - CVS Caremark Corp. won a $3 billion contract to provide pharmacy benefits to federal employees, easing concern that the largest U.S....

UnitedHealth races McKesson in $11B tech hunt spurred by health care...

NEW YORK - UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. insurer, and McKesson Corp., the largest drug distributor, are vying for billions of dollars in...
BROWN BROKE GROUND in April on a new headquarters for its medical school, shown above in a rendering, on Richmond Street in Providence. /

Brown U. Medical 66th for social mission

NEW YORK – Harvard Medical School didn’t make it into the top 50 in a ranking based on how many primary-care doctors the schools...
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