Your Career: As work force ages, employers lag

Anne Staats was 75 when she took a year off work to care for her ailing husband.

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Unions accuse CVS Caremark of pushing Merck drug

A coalition of labor unions that has been a thorn in the side of CVS Caremark Corp. is accusing the drugstore chain's pharmacy benefits unit of violating the privacy of plan members and trying to get doctors to switch patients to an expensive diabetes drug.

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CVS says it standing by its offer for Longs

CVS Caremark says it is leaving its $2.7 billion bid for Longs Drug Stores unchanged, despite it being topped by rival Walgreen.

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Your Career: Tips for older job-seekers

Is it harder for older workers to get back on their feet after they’ve been laid off?

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CVS execs acquitted of corruption charges in RI

Two former CVS executives were acquitted Friday of bribing a Rhode Island state senator for legislative favors, dealing a blow to the federal government's probe into corruption in the Statehouse.

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CVS Caremark 3Q Profit Soars

CVS Caremark Corp., the nation's largest pharmacy chain, said Thursday its third-quarter profit more than doubled due to same-store sales gains and the use of more generic drugs.

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Caremark Says Shareholders Back CVS Deal

Caremark shareholders approved a $26.5 billion acquisition by CVS on Friday, creating one of the largest competitors in the prescription drug industry, the company said.

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CVS Drug Chain in 10-Year Deal With IBM

Drug store chain CVS Corp. will overhaul its human-resources department as part of a 10-year contract announced Thursday that is worth several hundred million dollars to IBM Corp.

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CVS Probe Finds Prescription Errors

A state investigation of CVS pharmacies confirmed dozens of prescription errors since 2002, including one that sent a 4-year-old girl to the hospital, officials said Thursday.

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New York officials say they've reached an $875,000 settlement with CVS Pharmacy to stop sales of expired products — including food, medicine and baby formula.

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We've heard about the boycott of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News Channel, one where as many as 20 advertisers have dropped their spots, thanks to pressure from left-wing groups angry at … well, their latest anger du jour.

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The Salisbury, MD Sam's Club giving kids candy "prescriptions" in pill bottles to kids.

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Imagine being a teenage kid getting ready to go on a date with someone you're pretty sure is going to have sex with you that night. Now, I want you to imagine being a real teenage kid. Not your adult reimagining of yourself as smarter and more mature than you were.

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A CVS subsidiary offered to send 120,000 letters to doctors promoting Zyprexa - at a charge of $5 per letter. A unit of CVS Caremark Corp.

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The largest US drug store has been accused of showing little concern for public health and meting out step-motherly treatment to minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics.

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HOLIDAY -- A man who used a fuzzy white teddy bear in a ploy to rob a Walgreen's Sunday has hit three more Holiday businesses: a CVS on Tuesday and a hair salon and a diner Thursday night. He brandishes a silver handgun during the robberies and he doesn't hide his face.

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A group of Boston community activists are protesting what they claim is a discriminatory move to lock up condoms in a Dorchester CVS pharmacy.

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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Police in south Brevard County believe they've ended a crime spree. They arrested two men Tuesday accused of robbing eight businesses at gunpoint. It was one man's glazed-over eye and the voice of another that ultimately led to their capture.

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Excerpt: All good entrepreneurs have their niche. If what police say is true, Randy Sterling — the alleged "Body Wash Guy" shoplifter — has found his special place in the world of crime.

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If you've ever collaborated with other people on a project, you know the frustration of constantly swapping files. Some do it by email, some through file upload services and some by other methods. It's a pain in the neck, and every designer and developer knows it.

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The latest robbery happened at a CVS Pharmacy located on Conroy Windermere and Dr. Phillips roads in Orange County Tuesday. Surveillance video showed the bandits running into the business in crouched positions and then forcing a woman into a cooler at gunpoint.

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A statewide sweep by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found that more than half of CVS stores and 43 percent of Rite Aid stores were selling expired drugs, milk, eggs and baby formula.

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Julie Phillips, 50, allegedly helped purchase the diapers at a local CVS pharmacy for her daughter, 15, and her daughter's friend...

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Google on Monday unveiled Google Health, a long-anticipated U.S. health information service that combines the leading Web company's classic search services with a user's personal health records online.

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PINELLAS PARK - Within an hour of robbing a CVS pharmacist at knifepoint early Saturday, a 26-year-old Seminole man told his mother, who promptly turned him in, police said.

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CVS Opening on property + homeless people still there+ Building burned+ CVS opening soon+homeless forced to move+CVS opening soon+Homeless people will be forced to move+CVS opening soon+who started fire? CVS opening soon!

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American Medical Association Attack Retail Health Clinics

Doctors of America are fighting hard to squash competition as retail health clinics open nationwide bringing more affordable basic health care to the average person.

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Censorship By CVS in Milwaukee?

It is rumored that the weekly newspaper "The Shepherd Express" was removed from recently converted Osco Drugstores in Milwaukee.

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Three-year-old Sarah M. is either a toddler in her birthday suit playing in the garden, or a nude temptress with a sultry look who requires protection from the culprits who took this photograph -- her doting parents.

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At the helm of the CVS and Caremark discussions were the Chairmen of these two companies.

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CVS, a leading drugstore chain based in Woonsocket- with over 6,000 stores has confirmed that it is in talks to acquire Caremark Rx. Inc, a prescription benefits manager with a national retail network of over 60,000 pharmacies.

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President Bush pulled an October Surprise of his own yesterday when he stopped at a CVS in Washington, D.C. unannounced...and, also unannounced, an AP photographer happened to be on hand at the drugstore to document Bush's meet-and-greet with the pharmacists.

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Wal-Mart expands $4 generic drug program Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is expanding a program offering $4 prescriptions for some generic drugs to 14 more states, two weeks after rolling out the low-cost program in Florida, the world''s largest retailer said Thursday....

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CVS and Plan B

CVS "pharmacy" has for the second time (in my memory) drawn themselves in with the crowd that believes the rights and opinions of their employees supercedes the medical rights of their customers.

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