Here are the stores and restaurants open on Christmas Day
Need a last minute ingredient or gift on Christmas Day? Here's what restaurants, grocery stores and fast-food chains will be open.
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Need a last minute ingredient or gift on Christmas Day? Here's what restaurants, grocery stores and fast-food chains will be open.
CVS announced a new policy to make prescription drug prices more predictable. Tina Reed, senior health care reporter at Axios, joins CBS News to discuss what the move means for consumers.
Some staff members at major U.S. pharmacy chains like Walgreens and CVS walked off the job this week over working conditions. The three-day walkouts that began Monday follow similar walkouts last month in Arizona, Washington, Oregon and Massachusetts. Shane Jerominski, a licensed independent pharmacist, joined CBS News to discuss the situation.
Rite Aid has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to shutter more than 150 U.S. stores while CVS and Walgreens also plan to shutter more than 1,500 pharmacies across the country. Public health experts warn these drugstores are closing in mostly low-income neighborhoods. Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, a family medicine and urgent care doctor, joined CBS News to discuss the issue.
CVS won't sell decongestants that contain phenylephrine as the only active ingredient after an FDA panel called the ingredient ineffective.
Cutting hours is meant to ease workload for employees and deliver better customer service, pharmacy chains say.
A third lawsuit against the pharmacy chain claims it illegally fired an employee who said her religion prevented her from prescribing the drugs.
Justice Department also ruled that the USPS may legally deliver abortion drugs in all 50 U.S. states.
CVS and Walgreens are both limiting the amount of children's pain and fever medications a person can purchase as supplies run low during a rise in respiratory infections. Riley Children's Health primary care pediatrician Dr. Shannon Dillon joins CBS News to discuss what parents should and should not do if they can't find medication at the pharmacy.
The nation's two largest pharmacy chains, CVS and Walgreens, announced they are settling lawsuits over their roles in the opioid crisis to the tune of $5 billion each. CBS News' Elaine Quijano speaks with Peter Mougey, who represented affected communities in these settlements, about where the money is going and what this means for future cases.
Drugstore giant continues push to diversity its business by acquiring a leading home-health provider.
Pharmacies are seeing a surge in demand for "Plan B" pills after the recent Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. In response, some are limiting the number of pills that each customer can purchase. Sharon Terlep, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, joins "CBS News Mornings" to explain.
Both drugstore chains say they have a range of tests in stock after working with manufacturers to boost supplies.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to airlines that terrorists may try to hide explosives inside small tubes of toothpaste or skin care products; and, the country's second-largest pharmacy chain, CVS Caremark, announced it will stop selling cigarettes and all tobacco products in its stores by October 2014
Lake and Trumbull counties blamed three chain pharmacies for flood of pills that caused hundreds of overdose deaths, attorneys said.
CVS will close as many as 900 stores over the next three years, citing population shifts and changes in customer habits.
"We remain focused on the competitive advantage provided by our presence in thousands of communities," its CEO said.
Advocates had feared the case would have far-reaching effects on disability rights.
CVS is stopping the sales of two of its sun care products a day after Johnson & Johnson issued a nationwide recall of five of its sunscreen products. Johnson & Johnson says Benzene, a chemical that causes cancer, was found in some of its product samples, and the recall is out of an abundance of caution.
Critics say CVS and Walgreens are to blame for a slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines meant for residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. The federal government selected the two pharmacies to lead the effort with that part of the U.S. population. CBS MoneyWatch senior reporter Stephen Gandel joins CBSN AM with the latest on the delays.
"People are absolutely dying right now who didn't have to," said the chief medical officer of one assisted living chain.
CVS, Walgreens and Kroger among those hiring as large chains ready to play part in nationwide immunization effort.
Doctors John LaPook and Holly Phillips join "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss the week's top medical news including CVS decision to ban the sale of tobacco products in its stores.
Growing number of major retailers are making masks mandatory as coronavirus surges across the nation.
Walgreens and CVS Health announced they would join Walmart in no longer locking up the products.