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Walgreen giving free care to jobless and uninsured

Walgreen says walk-in clinics will offer free service to patients who lose jobs and insurance. Drugstore operator Walgreen will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and routine treatment for minor ailments through its walk-in clinics ? though patients will still pay for precriptions.
 

GlaxoSmithKline reduces stake in Quest

GlaxoSmithKline sells about 5.7M shares of Quest Diagnostics for more than $250M. GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Friday that it sold approximately 5.7 million shares of Quest Diagnostics Inc. for more than $250 million, reducing its stake to about 16.5 percent.
 

Simple Medical Tests Designed To Ferret Out Hospital Infections

Hospital infections, E. coli outbreaks, flu epidemics. Before they get worse and spread, health care pros try to nip them in the bud.
 

Genoptix Focuses On Tests For Cancers Of The Blood

A bone-marrow biopsy is the sort of thing you might wish on your worst enemy, but probably not on anyone else.