The price of menstrual products is skyrocketing from inflation, tariffs

[ad_1] Always products are displayed on a shelf in a supermarket in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina October 29, 2024.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters Rising inflation and ever-changing tariff policies have led to higher prices across store shelves over the past few years, squeezing consumers’ budgets. An often overlooked example: menstrual products. The average price of … Read more

What Trump’s reclassification of pot and CBD could mean for seniors, research and stocks

[ad_1] Tarek Adieh, of Tampa, Florida, looks at cannabis flower from wholesaler Dep Kings at Champs Trade Show at the Palmer Events Center, Sept. 11, 2025. Jay Jannar | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week that would broadly expand access to cannabis. Industry advocates, … Read more

Abortion pill makers brace for restrictions a year after Trump’s election

[ad_1] Mifepristone and Misoprostol pills are pictured Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in Skokie, Illinois. Erin Hooley | Chicago Tribune | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Just over a year since Donald Trump was elected president again, the $6.9 billion abortion pill industry is operating under the same federal rules he inherited from former President … Read more

GLP-1s and Brian Thompson’s killing loom large at top health-care conference

[ad_1] Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024.  Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty Images San Francisco, famed for its abundance of hoodie-clad tech workers, was … Read more

Pharmacy deserts are appearing across U.S. as drug stores closures spread

[ad_1] A shuttered Rite Aid store in New Lebanon, Ohio. Kevin Williams New Lebanon, Ohio, population 3,756, has three dollar stores, a Groceryland grocery store, a few fast-food restaurants, a public library branch, and a spirit-filled school system. What it doesn’t have is a pharmacy. As part of Rite Aid’s bankruptcy filing in October 2023, the chain … Read more

Here’s why Walgreens and CVS retail pharmacies are struggling — and what they’re doing to fix it

[ad_1] The abundance of Walgreens and CVS Health stores makes them convenient for whenever Shriya Raghavan, a research associate based in Philadelphia, needs to pick up necessities like gum, deodorant and soap.  But she said she often has to wait for employees to unlock cabinets or stand in lengthy lines to pick up prescriptions as … Read more

Why Walmart, Walgreens, CVS retail health clinic experiment is struggling

[ad_1] Bobbi Radford showed up at the CVS MinuteClinic in Batavia, Ohio, last Thanksgiving because she had pain in her arm. “I waited an hour and then was told to go to the [emergency room].,” Radford said. Filling the staffer in on her history of congestive heart failure, she was directed to go to the ER. But Radford says after she … Read more