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Obama uses 2012 campaign tactics to sell healthcare law

2013-05-11 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Seeking to ensure his landmark healthcare law is successfully implemented, President Obama is reprising his 2012 election strategy in hopes of enrolling millions of uninsured Americans in health plans this fall. The new campaign,...

GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law

2013-05-13 20:14:00

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...

Kardashians' Khroma makeup renamed

2013-05-13 08:02:00

Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian's Khroma beauty line is being renamed Kardashian Beauty after a legal challenge from Florida-based Kroma Makeup. The products should arrive in stores including Sears and CVS in two to three weeks. [The Cut] The Obama...

Pfizer to sell Viagra online, take on counterfeit pills

2013-05-06 09:49:00

Pfizer Inc. will begin selling its popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra to patients on its website, in an unusual move to combat counterfeit drugs. It's a novel strategy because drug-makers rarely sell medicines directly to patients, but analysts...

Obama seeks to allay healthcare law concerns

2013-04-30 19:31:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama sought to tamp down fears Tuesday that his landmark healthcare law would raise insurance costs and cause other disruptions, saying most Americans were already benefiting from it and others soon would. "Any time you'...

Midtown Shopping Center to see improvements after land sale

2013-05-02 05:00:00

The owner of a mid-Los Angeles shopping center that was destroyed by rioters in the 1990s and then rebuilt has acquired more land and seeks to expand and upgrade the mall. Plans call for making the Midtown Shopping Center a more family-friendly meeting...

Italian investors buy Clock Tower building in Santa Monica

2013-05-01 17:58:00

The Clock Tower, a Santa Monica office building beloved by Westside creative firms, has been snapped up by Italian investors who specialize in buying trophy historic properties. Clad in white terra cotta, the 12-story Art Deco-style office high-rise...

Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs

2013-04-19 20:47:00

When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...

Planned complex aims to help Pacoima neighborhood, entrepreneurs

2013-04-17 16:40:00

At a busy but nondescript intersection in Pacoima, a real estate developer is trying to help revive the San Fernando Valley neighborhood with an open-air market and retail complex aimed at small entrepreneurs. The complex on Van Nuys Boulevard at San...

Stacy Lewis, Michelle Wie finish off the pace at Kraft Nabisco

2013-04-07 16:50:00

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Stacy Lewis, the American who climbed to No. 1 in the world rankings two weeks ago, finished the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country Club with a final-round even-par 72 and a four-day total of 287. When the day is over...

Whole Foods to anchor new Playa Vista city center project

2013-04-15 12:50:00

Construction is underway on the long-awaited city center for Playa Vista that will include its first grocery store -- a Whole Foods Market. About the size of four city blocks, the $260-million shopping and apartment project called Runway is intended...

CVS customers say unauthorized prescription refills still occur

2013-04-11 18:20:00

Barbara De Maria received calls from her local CVS store in Glendale recently saying that her son's prescription had been automatically refilled, as per his instructions. Problem was, De Maria's son had given no such instructions, and the prescription...

A new MinuteClinic is now under construction inside the CVS store at 130 Cleveland Road, Granger. This will be among the first few MinuteClinics in the area. It is expected to open in the next several weeks.

2013-04-18 00:00:00

Frank Mordente, 64, of Tobyhanna, a pharmacist for more than three decades who most recently worked at the CVS in Mountainhome, Monroe County, was charged after an undercover drug deal, authorities said.

2013-04-11 00:00:00

The Sticky Buddy is an innovation along the lines of the basic lint roller�the type you have to constantly peel as you try to remove lint, pet hair, crumbs, etc. from fabric and upholstery. The Sticky Buddy is reusable because you wash it off with soap and water when it gets covered with gunk.

2013-04-08 09:48:57