Around 10:30 p.m. on a Friday in late January, David Fernando, a pharmacist, was working behind a counter at a drugstore in São Paulo when a man walked up to him and flashed a gun. “He asked for money from the register and medications from the refrigerator,” Mr. Fernando said. These days, pharmacists in São…
Customers at some CVS stores will no longer have to push a button and wait for a clerk to unlock one of those glass cabinets to get the products they want to buy. A new app will allow them to open the cabinets themselves, the company said on Tuesday. That feature of the new CVS…
Pharmacists have begun prescribing abortion pills, not simply dispensing them — a development intended to broaden abortion access. The new effort is small so far — a pilot program in Washington State — but the idea is expected to be tried in other states where abortion remains legal. “I think it is going to expand,…