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Most of the money is to be used to fight the overdose epidemic. The deals are among the largest of proposed and finalized settlements over the opioid crisis totaling over $50 billion.

California could receive more than $500 million from a $5.7 billion multistate agreement to settle a raft of lawsuits filed against Walgreens over the pharmacy chain's role in the opioid crisis, officials said.

CVS would pay about $5 billion and Walgreens more than $5.5 billion, though neither company has admitted wrongdoing. States have until the end of the year to accept the terms of the settlement.

“Kids can’t cope with pain like adults,” said Gwen Smith, a mom of three from Chicago’s North Side. “It’d be like torture, in a way, to have to witness your child suffering if your local pharmacy doesn’t have what you need.”

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Amazon handily beat Walmart for the lowest prices on food and consumables, a study shows. In other categories, things tightened up.

The city will soon lose hundreds of millions of dollars in public health funding as federal pandemic aid runs out. That, combined with low booster shot participation, could spell another surge in COVID, Dr. Allison Arwady says.

Read exactly what the judge told former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes before he sentenced her to 11 years in federal prison.

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes walked into her criminal trial in federal court in San Jose in September 2021 charged with 12 counts of fraud in connection with her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup. Four months later, she walked out guilty on four counts, after a jury found her liable for…