CVS Employees Required to Report Weight, Body Fat for Insurance

Employees at the drugstores who don't report will face increased rates.

What would you do if you went in to work one day and your employer told you that you needed to report your weight, body fat and glucose levels or your insurance costs would jump by $600 a year? CVS employees are dealing with that very issue right now, according to the Boston Herald. "This is an incredibly coercive and invasive thing to ask employees to do,” Patient Privacy Rights founder Dr. Deborah Peel told the Herald, adding that mounting health care costs have made these policies increasingly common. According to the Herald's report, CVS Caremark employs 200,000 workers and all of them, including those at the Chelmsford Street and Boston Road locations, are being required to report their metrics by May 1. The company has dubbed the …

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Tylenol Supplies Remain Limited at Boston Road CVS

Manufacturing problems also left the CVS locations across the country with a limited supply of the pain reliever.

A manufacturing problem at Tylenol parent Johnson & Johnson has left many area CVS stores without the popular pain reliever, although supplies are slowly returning to the Boston Road location. During a check last week, the store had gotten new supplies of Tylenol Extra Stregnth (pictured, in aisle 13) of its own brand of Acetaminophen. A CVS spokesman told Reuters that CVS will try to have Tylenol in stores in each market, but will not be able to stock every store.  Tylenol has battled manufacturing issues for years, and that's led to customers being more comfortable taking private-label versions of Acetaminophen, which is Tylenol's chemical name. Also from the Reuters report: In 2009, before the recalls started, Tylenol had 56 percent of …

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Frugal Family

Save on Food, Framing This Week

A look at the deals going on around town.

We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars. This column will be dedicated to giving you five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line, and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money. You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box. Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together. This week, we scoured our local sources to come up with great deals on museum passes, quilting supplies, salon services, paper goods, and pizza. Remember to check with the …

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