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CVS is removing all 22-ounce-sized Baby Powder bottles from its stores and off its website after government regulators found tiny amounts of asbestos in one lot of the talc-based product. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/JUSTIN SULLIVAN

CVS pulling all 22-ounce J&J baby powder from shelves amid recall

Health Services 10/24/2019

WIMINGTON, Del.– CVS Health Corp. is pulling some bottles of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder off pharmacy shelves after government regulators found tiny amounts...

CVS PHARMACY plans to expand the number of its medication safe disposal units throughout the country. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER LEE

CVS to expand medication disposal offerings

Health Services 10/24/2019

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. has plans to expand its offering of safe disposal units for unwanted and expired medication nationwide, as part of...

ENROLLEES in a Medicare Advantage program, the private-sector, taxpayer-financed alternative to traditional Medicare, has steadily increased in recent years. / BLOOMBERG NEWS

Medicare Advantage plans 2020: Cigna, CVS’ Aetna offer competing plans

Health Services 10/09/2019

NEW YORK – Health insurers across the United States will race to enroll more seniors in lucrative government-backed Medicare plans this month, even as...

To waitlist or not: It’s up to pharmacies

Hot Topic 10/04/2019

The independent Matt’s Local Pharmacy on East Main Road in Middletown recently had 40 doses of Shingrix, the federal government’s recommended vaccine for the...

CVS AND WALGREENS have pulled ll versions of Zantac from their shelves. The FDA recently announced that is has found small amounts of a probable carcinogen in versions of Zantac and other forms of ranitidine. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/ DREW ANGERER

Walgreens, CVS take Zantac off shelves as carcinogen probed

Health Services 09/30/2019

WASHINGTON – Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. will remove all versions of Zantac from its stores’ shelves as health regulators investigate a probable carcinogen detected...

CVS HEALTH CORP. has received final approval for its acquisition of Aetna Inc. in U.S. District Court. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER LEE

CVS wins court approval for antitrust accord on Aetna deal

Health Services 09/04/2019

WASHINGTON – CVS Health Corp. won court approval for its $68 billion takeover of Aetna Inc., removing the final barrier to a deal that adds...

SUPPLIES OF the Shingrix shingles vaccine in the area are low but improving. Above, a vaccination advertisement at the Walgreens located at 12 East Main Rd., Middletown. / PBN PHOTO/JANINE WEISMAN

Demand in R.I. outpaces CDC’s preferred shingles vaccine but supplies are...

Health Services 08/28/2019

MIDDLETOWN — Word had yet to get out about what was in a pharmacy refrigerator at the Walgreens on East Main Road in Middletown...

SWING OF THINGS: In their leisure time, employees at Parkinson Technologies participate in a golf league at Chemawa Golf Course in North Attleboro. Joe Connelly, Parkinson product development manager, tees off.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Healthy employees keep Parkinson Technologies on cutting edge

PBN Award Winners 08/09/2019

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019 2-149 EMPLOYEES #1: Parkinson Technologies Inc. CEO (or equivalent): Peter Termyn, CEO and president Number of employees: 80 Woonsocket-based Parkinson Technologies INC....

CVS Health offers employees prescription to improved well-being

Health Services 08/09/2019

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019 5000+ EMPLOYEES #2: CVS Health Corp. CEO (or equivalent): Larry J. Merlo, CEO and president Number of employees: 151,355 IT’S ONE THING...