Tag: Walgreens

Walgreens and Prothena Partner to Increase Access and Enrollment in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trial

Stuart Mitchell

Walgreens and Prothena have announced a collaboration to accelerate patient identification and recruitment for Prothena’s ongoing ASCENT-2 multiple ascending dose clinical trial evaluating the safety and tolerability of PRX012, a potential best-in-class anti-amyloid beta antibody under development for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. As part of the collaboration, Walgreens will leverage its national footprint, portfolio of industry-leading healthcare companies and compliance framework to match patient populations to this Prothena clinical trial for PRX012, which has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “Alzheimer’s disease is…

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Walgreens Joins Sustainable Medicines Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Walgreens has announced it is joining the Sustainable Medicines Partnership (SMP) as a founding sponsor of the initiative, which aims to collaborate and execute on projects to make the use of medicines more sustainable and less wasteful. Through its multi-stakeholder global collaboration with industry leaders such as Walgreens, the SMP is a four-year commitment to deliver evidence-based, integrated projects, including scalable solutions, frameworks, standards, metrics and implementation toolkits. Each of the integrated projects will be led according to the Partnership’s six pillars of sustainable medicines, including measurable impacts, end-to-end visibility,…

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Walgreens To Switch To 100% Cage-Free Eggs By Year-End

Stuart Mitchell

Walgreens, the second-largest healthcare, pharmacy, and retail chain in the United States, has accelerated progress toward its commitment to sell 100% cage-free shell and liquid eggs by 2025 to year-end 2022. This new public commitment accelerates the timeline for cage-free eggs across its 9,102 US retail locations by three years, so hens in the supply chains of its stores will no longer suffer in cages. “We applaud Walgreens for its decision to switch to cage-free eggs much sooner than initially planned. This step will reduce the suffering of countless egg-laying…

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The Iconic Red Nose is Back Exclusively at Walgreens to Support Healthy Communities and Help End Child Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

For the eighth year in a row, Walgreens is celebrating Red Nose Day as the exclusive retailer of the nationwide campaign to help end the cycle of child poverty and ensure a healthy future for all children. After two years of only the digital Red Nose filter being available due to the COVID-19 pandemic, customers can once again purchase the iconic Red Nose at their local Walgreens now through May 31, in addition to using the digital Red Nose filter. In partnership with Comic Relief US, Walgreens aims to bring…

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Walgreens Joins Hope Chicago’s Mission to Make College a Debt-Free Reality

Stuart Mitchell

Last week was a whirlwind of shock, surprise and jubilation for an estimated 4,000 high school students and parents of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) when Hope Chicago made stops to five Chicago-based high schools to deliver news that every student, grades 9-12, and one of their parents would receive all-expenses-paid college educations. Walgreens was on site for each history-making announcement event as one of a host of companies supporting Hope Chicago, the new college scholarship program that has committed to investing $1 billion in scholarships to Chicago’s students and their parents…

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