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The Trump administration announced that the company, a pharmacy benefit manager, had agreed to make significant changes to its practices. By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson The reporters have ...

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The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Express Scripts, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Tuesday and demanded the agency retract a report saying the industry middlemen ...

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