CVS, Walgreens Announce $10 Billion Opioid Settlements
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Years of litigation over the opioid epidemic could end soon, as the national pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens announced Wednesday that each company has agreed to a nearly $5 billion settlement. While neithe…
Learn MoreFlorida Medical Board May Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Minors
MONDAY, Oct. 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Transgender minors in Florida are now one step closer to not being able to get medical care to affirm their gender. In a heated hearing on Friday, the Florida Board of Medicine voted to begin drafting a rule b…
Learn MoreAs Clinics Providing Abortions Closed in Iowa, STD Rates Started Rising
MONDAY, Oct. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, many states had already moved to limit abortion access by defunding family planning health centers.Unfortunately, these very same clinics …
Learn MoreJuul to Pay $438.5 Million for Its Role in Teen Vaping Crisis
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Juul Labs said Tuesday it will pay $438.5 million, without acknowledging wrongdoing, to settle dozens of lawsuits filed over company practices that may have fueled widespread vaping among American teens.”Th…
Learn MoreLas licencias pagas por enfermedad salvan las vidas de los trabajadores, según un estudio
MARTES, 30 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — El acceso a las licencias pagas por enfermedad salva vidas, muestra una investigación reciente.El estudio de EE. UU. también encontró que cuando las leyes locales obligaban a las empresas a proveer lice…
Learn MorePaid Sick Leave Saves Workers’ Lives: Study
TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Access to paid sick leave saves lives, new research shows.The U.S. study found that when local laws required employers to provide paid sick leave, lower death rates from homicide, suicide and alcohol-related …
Learn MoreThree Pharmacy Chains Must Pay $650 Million for Role in Opioid Crisis
THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Three of the country’s largest pharmacy chains will have to pay $650.5 million over the next 15 years to two Ohio counties for their role in the opioid epidemic, a U.S. federal judge has ordered.The decision…
Learn MoreBiden to Sign Executive Order Protecting Women Traveling for Abortion
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — President Joe Biden is poised to sign a new executive order that would make it easier for women to travel to another state to get an abortion.
This would be eased in part by allowing states that have not…
Learn MoreMinnesota Trial Focuses on Pharmacist Who Refused to Provide Morning-After Pill
TUESDAY, Aug. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A Minnesota jury is expected to decide by the end of this week whether a woman’s human rights were violated when a pharmacist denied her request to fill a prescription for emergency contraception, sometimes …
Learn MoreLas muertes por armas de fuego aumentaron en un 30 por ciento entre los niños de EE. UU. en una década
MARTES, 26 de julio de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Un desalentador nuevo análisis encuentra que las probabilidades de que los jóvenes estadounidenses mueran como resultado de violencia con armas de fuego aumentaron en un 30 por ciento en la última década…
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