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PULLED PILL It's going to get harder to find the morning-after pill Preven at your local pharmacy now that Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, has decided to stop selling it. Not to be confused with RU-486, which is not yet approved in the U.S., Preven is taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex to prevent ovulation or implantation of a fertilized...
Pryor said that though he is back in the U.S., he would continue to help the refugees. He has already asked Wal-Mart to donate supplies, including baby bottles, blankets, clothes and shoes. He said he plans to request aid from a number of other companies...
Pryor hopes to be able to do more o rally support for the refugees back in the U.S. He has asked Wal-Mart to donate supplies to the refugees, including baby bottles, blankets, clothes and shoes. He said he intends to request aid from a number of other companies...
...companies can raise prices in that kind of environment, which makes them far less vulnerable to the dark side of economic growth--inflation and higher interest rates. If rates, which have also been going up, keep rising, it will let air out of a lot of consumer stocks, like Wal-Mart and Merck. Tech stocks would also suffer. Rising rates are terrible for bonds...
...whether based on "business" or fears that stocking the pill will offend Wal-Mart's oft-conservative customers in rural areas, is it appropriate for a pharmacy to stop dispensing a legal medication? "Imagine, for instance," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "if for business reasons the company had decided not to dispense insulin" -- would Wal-Mart?s decision be ethically supportable? "This is a dangerous, slippery-slope situation," says Gorman. By the way, although the company will no longer be dispensing Preven, it will still be selling Viagra...