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Walmart expanding health clinics to more states including Texas

Walmart is pushing ahead with its in-store health clinics and said Thursday it plans to open 28 more including 18 in Texas’ two largest metro areas.

Tribune News Service

Highest-Yielding Dividend Stocks in the S&P 500

LyondellBasell, Healthpeak Properties and Conagra head the list of the highest-yielding dividend stocks in the S&P 500. Some of the other names might surprise you.

Kiplinger

CVS buying Chicago’s Oak Street Health in deal valued at $10.6 billion

CHICAGO — CVS Health plans to buy Chicago-based Oak Street Health in a $10.6 billion deal that aims to expand CVS’s reach into primary care.

Chicago Tribune

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CVS buys Chicago-based Oak Street Health for $10.6B

Oak Street Health runs primary care centers mostly for lower-to-middle income people with Medicare Advantage plans.

Chicago Sun-Times

Retailers try to curb theft while not angering shoppers

Across the retail landscape, businesses have been putting items under lock and key as a quick way to stop thieves

The Independent UK

GOP AGs threaten CVS over abortion pills

More than a dozen attorneys general sent a threatening letter to the chains, citing a law from 1873

Salon

First Thing: Crackdown on environmental defenders at ‘alarming level’

Shooting in Atlanta part of dangerous escalation in the criminalization of environmental defenders, campaigners warn. Plus, how to escape learned loneliness

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20 attorneys general warn Walgreens, CVS over abortion pills

Attorneys general in 20 conservative-led states are warning CVS and Walgreens that they could face legal consequences if they sell abortion pills by mail in those states

The Independent UK

Earnings Calendar and Analysis for This Week (February 9-13)

Check out our earnings calendar for this week, as well as our previews and recaps of the more noteworthy reports.

Kiplinger

W.Va. announces $83 million opioid settlement with Walgreens

West Virginia has settled for $83 million with Walgreens for the pharmacy store chain’s role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the U.S. state with the most per capita overdose deaths

The Independent UK

Florida agency warns pharmacists not to dispense abortion pills

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With pharmacies in some states preparing to dispense abortion pills, Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration sent a letter Thursday to all state health care providers warning them that to do so in Florida is illegal.

Tribune News Service

Drugstores make slow headway on staffing problems

Drugstore chains are still trying to find enough employees to put a stop to temporary pharmacy closures

The Independent UK

Commentary: New FDA rules on abortion pills leave too many hurdles

Recent decisions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the two biggest pharmacy chains are bringing the post-Roe v. Wade landscape more clearly into focus. America is becoming a country where abortion is a crime in some states but just a normal part of health care in others.

Tribune News Service

Should you bank with Chime? Our 2023 review

The fintech company has checking and savings accounts but no money market or CDs.

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What FDA's abortion pill changes mean

Walgreens and CVS can now sell the abortion pill — but will they?

The Independent UK

Walgreens executive admits retail theft concerns are overblown: ‘Maybe we cried too much’

Investments in private security have been “largely ineffective” after theft issue dominated headlines heading into midterms

Chicago Sun-Times

Walgreens, CVS to seek certification for dispensing abortion pills

Once certified, the two largest national pharmacy chains will be able to prescribe mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions.

WEKU

Abortion pills should be easier to get. That doesn't mean that they will be

Changes by the FDA mean patients won't have to schedule in-person exams to get a prescription. That opens the door for more pharmacies to provide the medication. But not everyone will have access.

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Walgreens confirms plans to sell abortion pills under new FDA rules

Walgreens expects to offer abortion pills after the Food and Drug Administration changed its rules for the drug.

Chicago Sun-Times

Walgreens to close unique Wicker Park store

The drugstore, part of a celebrated renovation, incorporated features from when the building was a bank office, including a vault.

WEKU

CVS and Walgreens limit sales of children's meds as the 'tripledemic' drives demand

Walgreens will limit online orders of children's fever and pain medicine to six items "to help support availability and avoid excess purchases." At CVS stores, purchases will be limited to two.

Chicago Sun-Times

Walgreens, CVS agree to pay $10 billion to settle lawsuits linked to opioid sales

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.

Los Angeles Times

California could receive more than $500 million from Walgreens opioid settlement

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.

WEKU

CVS and Walgreens agree to pay $10 billion to settle lawsuits linked to opioid sales

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

With respiratory illnesses on the rise in Chicago, health care providers warn children’s medications may be hard to find

“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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