Holiday retail sales rose an estimated 3.6%
U.S. retail sales rose an estimated 3.6 percent this holiday season from a year earlier, helped by online shopping and purchases of electronics, data from MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse showed...
BusinessWeek

Retailers jockey to market swine-flu shots
Pharmacies, supermarkets and other retailers are jockeying to become the go-to provider for swine-flu vaccinations, in a bid to attract more customers and, in many cases, promote their in-store health clinics...
Wall Street Journal (Sub Req'd)

• Social media websites strengthened holiday season for retailers Denver Post
• drugstore.com, inc. agrees to acquire SkinStore.com CNN/Money
• Redbox announces top DVD rentals of 2009 PRNewswire
• More employers to boost hiring in 2010 Chain Store Age (Sub Req'd)
• Rite Aid takes a bite out of obesity; relaunches weight loss program for New Year Drug Store News (Sub Req'd)

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• FluSTAR National Report as of 12/29/2009 Roche Laboratories Inc.
• Policy and Procedures Manual Update MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.

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Novartis invests $120M to secure new heart drug
Switzerland's Novartis agreed to buy privately held U.S. group Cothera for $120 million, gaining rights to a heart failure drug and aiming to diversify sales as its top-selling medicine loses exclusivity...
Reuters

AstraZeneca buys Novexel for as much as $425M
AstraZeneca Plc agreed to buy Novexel, a drugmaker spun off from France’s Sanofi-Aventis SA, for as much as $425M to gain experimental antibiotics to treat infections that have shown resistance to existing medicines...
Bloomberg

• Ranbaxy offloads Chinese venture stake Fierce Pharma
• Novo Nordisk says FDA's Victoza feedback delayed Reuters
• Pfizer ends late-stage lung-cancer study Reuters
• Lilly, Kowa in promotion deal for new statin drug Reuters
• Boning up on how Merck marketed Fosamax Pharmalot

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Tylenol recall expands
A nauseating "moldy" odor has sickened some people using Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplet 100-count bottles with red EZ-Open caps. Tylenol maker McNeil PPC Inc. has recalled all of this product, which is easily recognized by its distinctive red cap. The new recall expands a five-lot recall of the product announced last November...
WebMD (Sub Req'd)

What health-care reform will mean for you
Amid all the talk about filibusters, long-term affects, and 'bending cost curves' one thing has gotten obscured: how will you see your coverage change after health-care reform passes?
Newsweek

• What to expect in first 6 months of overhaul NPR
• Oklahoma company recalls 248,000 pounds of beef ABC News
• Severe H1N1 cases and asthma are linked Boston Globe
• Subway had Jared, now Taco Bell's got Christine ABC News

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December 23, 2009
CVS Goes to Generation Health for Caremark Head

December 16, 2009
Sanofi Recalls 800,000 Swine Flu Shots On Potency

December 9, 2009
Drug Prices Under Scrutiny Amid U.S. Health Reform

December 2, 2009
Some Justices Voice Skepticism of Merck in Vioxx Case

November 25, 2009
Impulse Buying Is Alive and Well

November 18, 2009
A Boom in Toyland?

November 11, 2009
Novartis Plans $200 Million Ad Blitz for OTC Heartburn Drug

November 4, 2009
GSK and Pfizer Launch HIV-Specific Drug Company

October 28, 2009
Walmart Preps to Battle Best Buy's Geek Squad

October 21, 2009
CDC Weighs HPV Vaccine for Boys

October 14, 2009
Walmart.com Launches Personal Care Products Online

October 7, 2009
Target Opens 26 New Stores Nationwide

September 30, 2009
Japan Panel Backs Glaxo Cervical Cancer Vaccine

September 23, 2009
Novartis Chip to Help Ensure Bitter Pills Are Swallowed

September 16, 2009
Novartis Drug Improves Lung Function, Reduces Breathlessness

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