ST. PAUL, Minn. (Oct. 24) — 3M on Thursday announced the nationwide availability of the 3M Rapid Detection Flu A+B Test, an innovation in the flu diagnostics market.

CHICAGO (Jun. 18) Physicians are backing a new public health policy that bans the sale of tobacco products and/or byproducts in retail outlets housing store-based health clinics.

MILWAUKEE (Aug. 28) In observance of National Immunization Awareness Month, Aurora Health Care is offering meningitis vaccinations for children at its Aurora QuickCare clinics, Aurora announced Wednesday.

BELTSVILLE, Md. (Oct. 3) — The City of Baltimore Health Department and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association locked horns again Thursday morning, over whether several monographed cough/cold medicines are appropriate for use in children under the age of six at a Food and Drug Administration public meeting held here.

EAGAN, Minn. (Jul. 30) Looking to make it even easier for consumers to access cost-effective healthcare, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is offering a new benefit option that eliminates co-pays for members who use retail-based clinics.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 26) — BestSweet recently launched Bee M.D., a honey based organic throat drop available in two flavors—natural honey and honey lemon. “Bee M.D. is soothing and sweet tasting and wards off cold symptoms naturally,” stated Harry Overly, vice president of marketing and innovation at BestSweet. “We wanted to create a safe, natural, healthy product which tastes great and is something moms would feel good about giving to their kids."

On the heels of the Massachusetts Public Health Council approving regulations allowing for in-store health clinics in the state, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is reportedly looking to ban the clinics from opening in the city.

DANVILLE, Pa. (Sep. 12) Careworks Convenient Healthcare has announced an alliance with Lehigh Valley Health Network to operate retail-based clinics in Allentown and Schnecksville, Pa.

ATLANTA (Jun. 26) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices announced Wednesday that it has allowed GlaxoSmithKline to add a vaccine against rotavirus to a list of child vaccinations.

ATLANTA (May16) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a single dose of Merck’s Zostavax even for people who have already had a case of shingles to prevent the painful condition and its potentially long-lasting after-effects, according to published reports. The Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine in 2006 and the CDC issued a provisional recommendation then, which is now replaced by this unanimous recommendation.

WASHINGTON (Apr. 30) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a quarter of children in the U.S. are not meeting government childhood vaccination recommendations, according to Reuters. The study was of children between the ages of 18 months and 3 years.

ATLANTA (Jun. 27) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that supplies of rabies vaccine in the United States are limited.

WASHINGTON (Jul. 23) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that Merck’s Gardasil is a safe and effective protection against human papillomavirus.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Sept. 26) — Chattem on Thursday announced the introduction of 15 new product launches, including four across the Gold Bond brand, three Icy Hot new products and two Cortizone-10 items.

Walk-in clinic operator CheckUps has confirmed that it has closed 23 clinics in Wal-Mart in four southern states, according to published reports.

CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid on Monday named Cheryl Slavinsky, a public relations industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience, the chain’s director of public relations.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (May 19) Drug Store News has learned that Michael Howe has stepped down from his post as chief executive officer of MinuteClinic, and that CVS Caremark has named Chip Phillips as president of the company’s retail clinic division.

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (Oct. 17) — A recent survey conducted by a medical news service for clinicians found that clinicians favor Dem. Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama and believe that Democrats have the cure for what ails the U.S.healthcare system.

NEW YORK (Aug. 1) There is a major opportunity for the expansion of retail-based health clinics, from providing preventative care to working with federal health programs and clinics to lower health costs, according to a report recently released by the health care consultants at the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

WASHINGTON (Apr. 16) The Council for Responsible Nutrition on Wednesday countered that a recently-updated meta-analysis in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews that claimed supplementation with vitamins A, E and beta-carotene could be hazardous to your long-term health does not debunk the body of scientific research that has shown that taking antioxidant supplements, including vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, zinc and selenium, consistently over the long-term, can play a role in reducing the risk of chronic disease.

CVS Caremark announced on Wednesday that its pharmacy benefit management division, Caremark Pharmacy Services, has received accreditation from URAC, a Washington DC-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry.

CVS recently opened the doors to its new flagship Manhattan store that incorporates many of the elements of its Project Life design and has a large beauty department and skin care center.

Tom Ryan, CVS chairman, president and chief executive officer of CVS Caremark had an upbeat message for attendees of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this week.

NEW YORK (Oct. 16)  — With the industry’s announcement that future labeling for kids cough-cold products would recommend use of those products in children only over the age of four, and that those products carrying the old labeling would sell through before being replaced with the new labeling, coupled with widespread criticism from Congress leaders and citizen advocacy groups that that voluntary measure doesn’t go far enough, purveyors of pediatric cough-cold remedies are in for another stormy season.

NEW YORK (Oct. 31) — More doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers are stretching their time and resources so they can be even more accessible to patients to stay competitive against the growing retail clinic business, The New York Times reported today.

NEW YORK (Oct. 17) — Retail Clinician publishes, this month, a bonus edition of its quarterly magazine with an issue focused on the self- care revolution. This Special Issue was developed with support from McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the producer of some of the most well-known and trusted OTC brands including Tylenol, Benadryl, Sudafed and Zyrtec.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (Sept. 29) — When the dust settles and either Walgreens or CVS Caremark end up with Longs Drug as the ultimate prize in their escalating takeover battle, the impact on retail pharmacy in the western U.S. will be profound, no matter which chain emerges as the winner. But its impact on the drug wholesaling industry will also reverberate for years.

Duane Reade announced on Nov. 27 the opening of its second Diabetes Resource Center in Brooklyn, which has the second highest number of diabetes claims to Duane Reade pharmacies after Manhattan.

NEW YORK (Jul. 23) A panel of experts from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists has recommended two approaches for treating patients with pre-diabetes.

NEW YORK (Jun. 25) Most children dread the multiple booster shots they must receive to protect them against childhood diseases, but GlaxoSmithKline has combined four of the shots into one.

ROCKVILLE , Md. (Oct. 23) — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a consumer update regarding the use of cough/cold products in children that reinforces the agency’s support of an industry initiative that changes label recommendations on pediatric cough/cold products to no longer recommend use in children under the age of four, and explains the reasoning behind why the agency hasn’t requested an immediate product recall of current labeling.

BOSTON (Sep. 8) CVS Caremark has confirmed that its MinuteClinic business in about a month will open the state’s first retail-based convenient care clinics.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 15) Retail Clinician, a publication of the Drug Store News Group, in conjunction with the Convenient Care Association, held the Inaugural Retail Clinician Education Congress in Orlando, Fla., this week, marking the first and only educational conference specifically focused on the retail clinician.

WASHINGTON (Jun. 4) The Federal Trade Commission has announced the approval of staff comments regarding proposed regulation of retail healthcare facilities in Illinois.

DEERFIELD , Ill. (Apr. 15) Federal antitrust watchdogs have given a green light to Walgreens’ plan to purchase I-trax, a provider of on-site clinical care and wellness services to U.S. employers, for a reported price of $278 million, according to news reports.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (Sept. 26) — The potential acquisition of Longs Drug Stores has taken yet another turn as the company announced Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has requested information regarding Walgreens’ unsolicited bid.

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. (Oct. 30) — Health Net Federal Services has announced today that RediClinic’s network of retail-based health care clinics inside Wal-Mart stores in the Richmond, Va. area will provide coverage to TRICARE North beneficiaries beginning Nov. 1.

TORONTO — HearAtLast Holdings, an operator of hearing aid clinics, has received another license from Wal-Mart Canada to open its 18th clinic within a Wal-Mart Store in Aurora, Ontario. The grand opening is slated for Feb. 5.

WASHINGTON (Jul. 24) The homeland security and health and human services departments have released guidelines for allocating and targeting a pandemic influenza vaccine, they announced Wednesday.

HOUSTON (Jul. 23) My Healthy Access, a provider of retail health care services to the urban marketplace, has inked a joint operating agreement with healthcare service provider NuPhysicia to operate Telemedicine clinics in select Houston-area Wal-Mart Supercenters.

HUDSON, Wis. (Jun. 12) Hudson Physicians, a division of Western Wisconsin Medical Associates, is expected to open this summer a walk-in healthcare clinic dubbed Hudson Physicians Quick Care, according to a local news report.

PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 14) — Independence Blue Cross, a health insurer in southeastern Pennsylvania, announced on Tuesday that its Personal Choice members now have a broadened network with the addition of MinuteClinic.

ST. LOUIS (Jun. 30) Less than two years after opening, all four InstaClinic locations have closed, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

MELROSE PARK, Ill. (Oct. 17) — Jewel-Osco Pharmacy has said that is now offering FluMist nasal spray immunizations, in addition to traditional flu shots, at its in-store pharmacy locations for added convenience and for those patients who do not care of flu vaccination injections.

TOPEKA, Kan. (Aug. 1) Governor Kathleen Sebelius has appointed Take Care nurse practitioner Serena Stutzman, an Olathe, Kan. resident, to the Kansas State Board of Nursing.

CINCINNATI (May30) Retail grocery chain Kroger has made a “significant” investment in retail clinic operator The Little Clinic that will support a clinic rollout.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (May2) The Little Clinic, an operator of in-store health clinics, has announced the opening of its eighth convenient care clinic in the Miami area inside Publix. Six additional Miami-area clinics are under construction and will open later this year.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Oct. 31) — The Little Clinic has been making some big changes over the last month. On Sept. 15, the retail clinic operator announced that it had opened its 12th convenient care clinic in the Tampa, Fla., area, inside a Publix store.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Aug. 6) The Little Clinic, an operator of retail-based clinics, opened several new clinics in July, including the opening of its second clinic in Fry’s Food Store.

BOSTON (Jul. 25) Following the approval by state health officials for limited-service medical clinics, some of the state’s largest health insurers will cover visits to the clinics to be opened in CVS and Walgreens stores later this year.

RENO (Mar. 17) Newcomer MedAisle Express Care is opening its first in-store clinic here within Sak ‘n Save Food Store, according to local news reports.

ST. LOUIS (Oct. 20) — Several Medicine Shoppe and Medicap Pharmacy stores are offering pharmacist-administered flu vaccines, the retail pharmacy franchiser announced Monday.

MIAMI (Aug. 13) MediGo, a division of Samoho Healthcare, an international healthcare company headquartered in Mexico, has opened physician-staffed walk-in clinics inside three Miami-Dade Navarro Discount Pharmacies. Navarro Discount Pharmacies is an MBF Healthcare Partners portfolio company.

AVONDALE, Ariz. (Aug. 4) MediMin has announced the completion of a long-term contract with Bashas’ to open retail health-care clinics inside grocery stores. Bashas’ is the second largest grocery chain in Arizona, with more than 160 stores.

MINNEAPOLIS (Mar. 15) MinuteClinic, a clinic operator owned by CVS Caremark, has applied for its first 10 clinic sites in Massachusetts and expects the opening dates to be in late summer to early fall.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Apr. 29) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced that it is now accepting BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee at all 12 Take Care Health clinics at Nashville-area Walgreens.

The state of New Jersey announced that, starting in September 2008, children entering day care or preschool will be required to have had flu vaccinations, despite some parents’ fears that the trace amounts of mercury in the vaccines could trigger autism.

BELLEVUE, Wash. (Aug. 20) The Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation, which was founded in 2005 by a group of pioneering nurse practitioners to help bring the NP profession to the forefront of healthcare, has awarded scholarships to leaders in nursing as part of an effort to encourage NPs to take a proactive approach to improving healthcare in their communities and promote diversity within the profession.

Massachusetts health officials have approved regulatory changes allowing the operation of retail-based medical clinics at pharmacies, according to published reports.

MILWAUKEE (Sept. 24) — U.S. lawmakers met yesterday to discuss the growing epidemic of obesity in children and to examine the effects of companies marketing foods to children.

WELLINGTON, Fla. (Apr. 28) PDQ Care has introduced a combination walk-in clinic and pharmacy at a regional shopping mall with the recent opening at The Mall at Wellington Green.

In-store clinic operator Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced the opening of seven Take Care clinics at Walgreens in the Pittsburgh area. The clinics relocated from Rite Aid where they had been open since September 2006.

SAN DIEGO (May30) Southern California health system Palomar Pomerado Health has partnered with Albertsons/Sav-on Pharmacy to open retail health centers and has opened two in-store health clinics, dubbed expresscare, in Rancho Penasquitos and Escondido.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (Oct. 31) — The most recent Web site poll conducted by QualityHealth.com about the state of the U.S. healthcare system and which points of care were most important when considering cost showed that most Americans are unhappy with the current system and wish to pay less, even if it means giving up services and access they now receive.

NEW YORK (Sep. 10) A recently released study by nonprofit research organization RAND Corp. found that many retail-based clinic patients do not have a regular health care provider, which is further evidence as to the important role that retail-based clinics play in today’s healthcare system.

HOUSTON (Jul. 8) In-store clinic operator RediClinic has announced that it now offers Weight Watchers services and products exclusively in the Richmond, Va. area.

RediClinic on Nov. 27announced that it has teamed with Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell to address the importance of flu prevention during National Influenza Vaccination Week.

NEW YORK (Oct. 14) — The Bradenton, Fla., Herald reported on the growth of retail clinics, noting that more large retailers are setting up the clinics in response to declining sales.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Jun. 23) International researchers on Friday made the case for delivering flu shots intravenously (just under the skin), as opposed to in the muscle, at the International Congress for Infectious Diseases held here.

CAMP HILL, Pa. (Apr. 16) The Rite Aid Foundation, a private foundation managed by Rite Aid Corp., has given a $20,000 grant toward the mobile health initiative of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the leading comprehensive cancer care and research centers in the U.S. and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

COLUMBIA , Md. (Apr. 8) Rite Aid will be opening retail clinics at four locations in Baltimore and Washington this summer, Rite Aid and clinic partner MedStar Health announced Tuesday.

CAMP HILL, Pa. (Sept. 23) — Rite Aid on Tuesday officially launched its new “Giving Care for Parents” program with print and online resources that offer solutions to common care-giving problems, expert advice from Rite Aid pharmacists and geriatric authorities and a library of informational videos, the chain announced today.

During the month of January, Rite Aid and one of its in-store clinic partners, Lindora, will offer a multi-faceted free weight management program to help people lose 10 percent of their body weight and make major improvements in their health and wellness, the retailer announced Wednesday.

NUTLEY, N.J. (Sept. 23) — Ample supplies of the flu drug Tamiflu will be available throughout the country during the flu season, manufacturer Roche said Tuesday.

BASEL, Switzerland (Jul. 1) Roche has laid out distribution plans and is urging companies to buy stockpiles of its influenza vaccine Tamiflu in the case of a pandemic, according to published reports. The goal for Roche is to increase sales of its product, and also to once again remind people that a pandemic could happen at any time.

LONDON (Mar. 4) J Sainsbury has become the first supermarket in the country to offer an in-store physician-staffed clinic.

WASHINGTON (Oct. 1) — Retail pharmacy groups are hailing passage in the U.S. Senate of legislation to clamp down on illegal online pharmacies, and awaiting word that the bill will clear a final hurdle to become law: a signature by the president.

MADISON, Wis. (Jun. 20) Meriter, a provider of health care services, has teamed up with ShopKo to open two FastCare clinics in Madison in mid-October.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. (Mar. 5) A study was published by the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics that tested a live attenuated influenza vaccine administered concurrently with a measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and the varicella vaccine in healthy children aged 12 to 15 months.

WASHINGTON (May1) According to a study conducted by the American Journal of Public Health, out of 700 Americans interviewed, about 23 percent of them shared their prescription medication with someone else, and 27 percent reported borrowing prescription medications.

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. (Sept. 25) — Supervalu Pharmacies today announced its preparations to offer flu immunizations this fall.

SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 17) — The American Dental Association working with in Crest and Oral-B oral hygiene product makers yesterday released the results of a nationwide survey of patients on oral health topics.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (May21) Patient satisfaction with retail-based health clinics remains high, according to the results of a new WSJ.com/Harris Interactive health care study.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Oct. 20) — Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, announced on Monday that chief executive officer and president Peter Miller, and Employer Solutions president Peter Hotz, have been promoted within Walgreens Health and Wellness division and now hold the additional title of divisional vice president.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Sept. 30) — Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has expanded its presence in Tennessee with the opening of six new retail-based clinics in the Knoxville and Memphis areas.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Oct. 16) — Take Care Health Systems, which currently operates 262 retail-based health clinics, has launched its first significant multimedia brand and advertising program since its acquisition by Walgreens in May 2007.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Nov. 11) — Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, is celebrating national Nurse Practitioner Week by recognizing the company’s nurse practitioners working at the retail-based health clinics and worksite health and wellness centers.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (Jul. 16) Walgreens has named Take Care clinic co-founder and chairman Hal Rosenbluth a corporate senior vice president of the company, in addition to his role as president of Walgreens Health and Wellness division.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Jun. 24) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has expanded into three more Wisconsin cities with the opening of its first clinics at Walgreens stores in the Green Bay, Madison and Oshkosh/Fox Valley markets.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Jun. 25) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, is expanding its presence in Colorado to include up to 16 clinics by the end of 2008.

CONSHOCKEN, Pa. (Sept. 24)  — Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced that, beginning Oct. 1, it will offer flu vaccinations at all 237 Take Care Clinics nationwide.

CONSHOCKEN, Pa. (Jun. 19) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced that it is now administering the shingles vaccine at all 177 Take Care Health Clinics in 19 markets throughout 14 states.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Aug. 11) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced that it is now offering school and sports physicals for $25 at its in-store health clinics nationwide.

INDIANPOLIS, Ind. (Sep. 2) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has expanded into Indiana for the first time with the opening of four in-store health clinics in Walgreens.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (May 27) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has opened its first Take Care Health Clinic at a Walgreens in the Rockford area.

ATLANTA (Sep. 17) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced the opening of five additional in-store clinics at Walgreens stores in the Atlanta area. The openings mark the second stage of a multi-phase expansion plan in the greater Atlanta area.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Apr. 29) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has opened five in-store clinics in the West Palm Beach area. One additional clinic is expected to open in the area over the next several weeks.

DENVER (May6) Take Care Health Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walgreens, has opened three Take Care Health Clinics at Walgreens drugstores in the Denver area.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Sep. 4) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has opened two Take Care clinics at Walgreens stores in Louisville. The clinic operator now has four locations in Kentucky, including two in the Cincinnati area.

In-store clinic operator Take Care Health Systems is celebrating on Monday the grand opening of its first ever Intellicenter in Fargo, N.D.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Nov. 11) — Take Care Health Systems has announced the opening of three new clinics, bringing the total number of clinics in operation to 281 in 30 markets.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Jun. 25) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has opened two in-store health clinics at Walgreens stores in the Columbus area.

BOSTON (Apr. 21) Months after the convenient care industry celebrated a victory in Massachusetts, as state health officials approved regulations allowing for limited-service medical clinics—a move sparked by CVS’ application to open MinuteClinics in the state—Take Care Health Systems has confirmed plans to also open retail-based clinics in Massachusetts.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (Nov. 7) — Take Care Health Systems on Friday announced that the retail clinic operator will hold a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at its new Franklin office on Nov. 10.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (Jun. 3) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has treated its 500,000th patient since opening in November 2005.

PENNINGTON, N.J. — The Dialogue Co. introduced in November the first nationally distributed co-op sampling program for retail-based clinics.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Sep. 5) The Little Clinic has added United Healthcare to its group of accepted insurances for those patients in Tennessee, Michigan, Arizona, Ohio and Georgia.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Sep. 16) The Little Clinic has opened new clinics at Publix stores located in Tampa and Deerfield Beach in South Florida.

WASHINGTON (Jun. 9) By the first of next year, the Bush Administration has decreed that all computer-generated prescriptions covered by the Medicare Part D drug benefit program must be transmitted electronically for filling by pharmacies. But many health care provider groups aren’t waiting for a federal mandate.

CAMP HILL , Pa. (May 14) Rite Aid and MultiCare Health System on Wednesday announced an agreement to open MultiCare Express clinics inside two Rite Aid stores in Tacoma and Lakewood, Wash. this summer.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (May16) Supermarket chain Ukrop’s is opening next week, in partnership with Pratt Medical Center, an in-store health clinic inside its Salem Church store, according to a local news report.

LITTLE ROCK , Ark. (Jan. 17) MedBasics Family Health Centers announced that it has opened the first three in-store clinics in Little Rock inside USA Drug retail locations.

BOSTON (Jun. 12) Take Care Health Systems, which is owned by Walgreens, has confirmed that it plans to enter the Boston-metro area this fall, yet another sign that competition within the convenient care clinics landscape is heating up.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (Sept. 25) — Walgreens has tapped a new vice president and chief marketing officer, Kim L. Feil, the company announced Thursday.

PLANO, Texas — JCPenney Monday said Walgreens chairman and chief executive officer Jeff Rein has joined its board of directors, effective Dec. 9, 2008.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (Mar. 27) Walgreens kicked off an expanded 2008 Take Care Health Tour this week that will hit 300 cities, cover more than 240,000 miles and provide more than $35 million in free health screenings and services, the company revealed.

DEERFIELD, Ill. (Sept. 23)  — Walgreens this week has expressed its disappointment with the Longs Drug Stores board of directors for refusing to discuss details of a merger proposed by Walgreens in August.

DEERFIELD, Ill. and WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (Sept. 23) — Longs Drug Stores may have rebuffed Walgreens’ unsolicited bid to acquire the chain but Walgreens maintains that it will continue to move forward and is prepared to go directly to Longs’ stockholders.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart has announced that it will open in April its first co-branded in-store health clinic in Atlanta, Little Rock and Dallas, paving the way toward having 400 co-branded clinics by 2010.

LONDON and ZURICH , Switzerland (Mar. 5) Roche Holding and GlaxoSmithKline have added new labels to their prescription flu medicines to warn of reports of abnormal psychiatric behavior in some patients, according to Reuters.

SEATTLE (Jun. 5) MultiCare Health System, which runs the hospitals Tacoma General, Mary Bridge Children’s, Allenmore and Good Samaritan in Puyallup, Wash., plans to open two clinics in Rite Aid stores, in Tacoma and Lakewood, Wash., the first week of August, according to published reports. MultiCare is believed to be the first hospital system in Washington to open in-store clinics.