Fentanyl Awareness Campaign Urges Parents to ‘Drop the F-Bomb’ With Their Kids
A new campaign from the Ad Council and
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Platforms Inc. is encouraging parents of teen and young-adult children to speak to them about the dangers of fentanyl.
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Walgreens Chases Customers It Lost During Covid Focus
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is planning to reinvigorate its pharmacy business partly through a marketing push designed to regain customers that stopped spending with the chain during the Covid-19 pandemic.“Frankly, we lost customers…
Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Carries Lessons for Pharma Supply Chains, Says Pfizer Executive
The concentrated effort to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines as the Covid-19 pandemic began to rage across the world highlighted the importance of the supply chain and helped set a model for how lifesaving medicines will be…
Moderna Names New CFO After Hasty Departure of Predecessor
Moderna Inc.
named a new finance chief roughly three months after the Covid-19 vaccine maker’s previous hire for the role departed abruptly due to an internal investigation under way at…
Humidifiers vs Dehumidifers vs Purifiers: Which One Do I Actually Need?
AT THEIR MOST BASIC, dehumidifiers, humidifiers and air purifiers might seem like relatively similar devices. All are boxy, sometimes expensive appliances that help correct issues with your air quality with the help of some form of filter.…
Companies Shrink Cash Buffers as Economic Shock of Pandemic Fades
Companies are whittling down the cash buffers they built early on during the pandemic, putting capital to work through acquisitions, buybacks and, in some cases, buying extra inventory to weather supply-chain backlogs.Investors in the weeks…
Mental-Health Care Shortage Is Being Treated With Outdated Ratios
It is hard to read the news these days without hearing that many people in need of mental-health care aren’t getting it. Consideration of suicide shot up during the pandemic; opioid deaths soared 30%; the Surgeon General has warned of a…
China Set to Post the Slowest Growth in Two Years on Zero-Covid Policy
SINGAPORE—China is expected to record its weakest growth rate in more than two years, a measure of the costs imposed on the world’s second-largest economy by Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid.Retail sales and industrial production…
Freight Rates Are Starting to Fall as Shipping Demand Wavers
High-price freight contracts that were written when carrier capacity was tight and a rush to restock inventories was in full force are losing their shine as slowing demand and a wavering U.S. economy send shipping rates sliding.Some…
Macau Shuts Casinos as City Enters Weeklong Lockdown
Residents lined up to get tested for the coronavirus in Macau last week.
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