Theranos, the blood-testing company led by Elizabeth Holmes, was discredited for misrepresenting its technology’s capabilities; in 2016, Holmes was banned from running a lab for two years. The company had been in partnership with Walgreens, but their relationship soured as evidence against Theranos mounted. Walgreens …
In the summer of 2015, Alexandra Franco got a letter in the mail from a company she had never heard of called AcurianHealth. The letter, addressed to Franco personally, invited her to participate in a study of people with psoriasis, a condition that causes dry, itchy patches on the skin.
Three years ago, Walgreens invested in Elizabeth Holmes’ medical technology startup, Theranos. The relationship between the drugstore retailer and Holmes—Theranos’ head, who, as a Stanford dropout, had an origin story worthy of Silicon Valley’s best—marked the public announcement of the company. The New York Times…
The New York attorney general has ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to clean house. He says they're selling fraudulently labeled, bullshit "herbal supplements" that've got to go, pronto, and he also wants to know exactly how they're verifying the products they carry.
Welcome to the Internet of Your Ovaries—it's like the Internet of Things but with birth control. Walgreens pharmacy has partnered with a company called Glow to refill your birth control from your smart phone and yes, the robots are coming for us—with tampons, hopefully.
The walking dead could be heading into your orifices right now! PLEASE NOTE: This undead dong is NSFLOU (not safe for living or undead).
As many of us already know, Disney villains are far better role models than a princess could ever be — and so, why not put their faces on ours faces? If walking around as Ursula doesn't give you confidence to kick the day's ass, I don't know what to tell you. Work it, you glam sea bitch.
Pro tip for anyone playing the "instant win" contest on Walgreens' Facebook page: the pharmacy apparently thinks it's impossible to have sex on your period.
If you need this gift guide right now, you're probably fucked. Begin your journey having already accepted this fact, and the process will be easier. You are not going to find a good present, not for anyone, not now, and especially not after midnight. And after that point, you have but one steadfast friend with open…
If you're looking for a good place to have a hypoglycemic attack, Walgreens isn't it. In 2008 the company fired Josefina Hernandez for eating a bag of chips when she felt an attack coming on, even though she paid for them as soon as she was able to leave her cashier's post at a San Francisco store. Hernandez had…
