BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - A low heat that’s simmered for weeks over an attempt to lower prescription drug prices in Louisiana increased to a boil Thursday in the waning hours of the ...

The texts urgently ask residents to contact their lawmakers, claiming a bill in the session threatens their access to pharmacies and medications.

The closure will impact residents like Lou Cohick, who has cerebral palsy and valued the store's accessibility and ...

From efforts to turnaround business to a bankruptcy filing, hundreds of pharmacies have or are expected to close this year. Even if your pharmacy is staying open, you could feel the impacts.

The locations, spread across Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, are set to shut down on June 4, according to notices filed with the state Department of Labor.

Those closures have the potential to create what’s known as a “pharmacy desert” in the county ... than 1,000 stores across the country with CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens, Albertsons, Kroger ...

In the Pacific Northwest, reported Bloomberg on Thursday, rival CVS ... sole pharmacy if Rite Aid leaves and no company takes its place. This would create what’s known as pharmacy deserts ...

There, shoppers can fill prescriptions at the local supermarket, at retail chains such as Target or Walmart, as well as other pharmacy chains such as CVS and Walgreens. They also have mail-order ...

Awareness of the pharmacy desert problem flared in 2023, when CVS and Walgreens announced a ... caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; and the impact of the COVID-related shift to work from home on ...

They defined a census as a pharmacy desert if the travel time to the nearest ... In the past six months, CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance have announced plans to close a total of about ...

This is part three of a three-part series on struggles within American pharmacies and the impact ... CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid — many of them are closing as well,” Potter said. Nearly half of all ...

This is part one of a three-part series on struggles within American pharmacies and the impact those ... In 1997, CVS started growing after it added 2,500 Revco Discount Drug Stores. In 2015, it took ...