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Walgreens (WAG) said November sales at stores open at least one year rose 3.2% from a year earlier, excluding sales at Duane Reade stores. The effect of calendar day shifts boosted comparable sales by 1.5 percentage points, Walgreens said in a statement. Total sales in November rose 8.6% from a...

Sam's Club is offering free health screenings -- to members and non-members alike -- this Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. Get your cholesterol, glucose and blood pressure checked with results in about 15 minutes. The free health screenings are available at all Sam's Clubs that have a...

Natural medicine guru Mike Adams is unveiling a boisterous rap music video effort to suggest that the right way to counter the flu could be vitamin D rather than vaccinations. To probably no one's surprise, the government isn't exactly thrilled. The colorful and sometimes off-color effort, called...

December 31 is an important day when it comes to healthcare purchases, because a few things will be expiring on that date. For those of you with flexible spending accounts, it's the last day for you to use the money you've stashed in that account, or else you'll forfeit the balance. (However, a few...

Microsoft and Google, two titans in technology, are separately trying to help combat the worst flu season in decades. First came an interactive Web site from Microsoft to help diagnose the swine flu. Now comes a flu shot finder from Google to help find shots for the regular flu and swine flu. If...

If you work at a hospital, you may be told, not asked, to get a seasonal flu vaccination soon.As the flu shot season gets an early start this year, the Associated Press is reporting that Loyola University Medical Center has adopted a new policy requiring its employees and students to get...

Got health care? In this American recession, probably not, especially if you're included in the 10% unemployment rate. And this flu season is shaping up to be über-nasty.With separate vaccines for seasonal flu and swine flu (be advised!), more Americans than ever will be eager to get stuck...