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Steven Brandenburg, the pharmacist accused of tampering with hundreds of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, is facing a misdemeanor charge of attempted criminal damage to property.

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Pharmacist Accused Of Tampering With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Charged With Misdemeanor

9:32pm January 19, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Steven Brandenburg, the Wisconsin pharmacist who admitted to removing some 570 doses of the Moderna vaccine from cold storage last month, has been charged with attempted criminal damage to property.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department filed a civil suit accusing Walmart of failing to stop "hundreds of thousands" of improper opioid transactions at its chain of pharmacies.

Walmart Is Latest Big-Name Company Embroiled In Opioid Crisis

3:06pm December 23, 2020

by Brian Mann

The Justice Department says the retailer ignored red flags for years, filling suspicious prescriptions for opioids and contributing to America's deadly addiction crisis. Walmart denies wrongdoing.

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Amazon has launched an online pharmacy, sending shares of CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid tumbling.

Amazon Wants To Sell You Prescription Medications

1:05pm November 17, 2020

by Alina Selyukh

Amazon launches an online pharmacy, sending shares of CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid tumbling. Amazon has pushed to compete with Walmart and major pharmacy chains that have long offered home delivery.

The online pharmacy HealthWarehouse said that of the 500,000 tablets requested in March, it only dispensed around 100,000 after screening.

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Online Pharmacy Saw A 'Panic-Driven' Boom In Drug Touted By Trump

6:09pm May 14, 2020

by Austin Horn

HealthWarehouse says requests for hydroxychloroquine surged to 50 times the usual number in March. Its website crashed after Trump mentioned the drug, which is unproven to treat COVID-19.

Richard Ost owns Philadelphia Pharmacy, in the city's Kensington neighborhood. He says he has stopped carrying Suboxone, for the most part, because the illegal market for the drug brought unwanted traffic to his store.

It's The Go-To Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction. Why Won't More Pharmacies Stock It?

1:27pm August 13, 2019

by Nina Feldman

It can be hard enough finding a doctor who prescribes buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid addiction. But patients also report difficulty with pharmacies that refuse to stock the drug.

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Kaiser Health News explores the role of pharmacy benefit managers in pricing drugs.

VIDEO: Little-Known Middlemen Save Money On Medicines — But Maybe Not For You

12:15pm August 02, 2017

Many people have never heard of pharmacy benefit managers. They're the companies that help insurers decide what drugs to cover and how much you pay for them.

Chewing gum believed to have been masticated by the notorious gangster John Dillinger, now on display at the History of Pharmacy Museum in Tucson, Ariz.

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Need A Fill Of Drugstore History? Try Tucson's Pharmacy Museum

12:04pm August 23, 2016

by Renee Montagne

The centerpiece of the History of Pharmacy Museum is a penny candy jar filled with old wads of gum allegedly chewed by the infamous gangster John Dillinger and stuck under a pharmacy counter.

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