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What FDA's abortion pill changes mean

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

Salon

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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Walgreens Stock Slides As $6.5 Billion Opioid Charge Clouds Earnings Beat

Walgreens booked a $6.5 billion charge to its first quarter earnings linked to its role in the U.S. opioid crisis.

The Street

Stocks Edge Higher, Jobs Data, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, Walgreen - Five Things To Know

Stock futures flat as Fed minutes challenge rate bets; Jobs data in focus as Fed highlights wage growth; Johnson & Johnson plans IPO for consumer health care division; Amazon confirms 18,000 layoffs as big tech sheds more jobs and Walgreens earnings on deck with pharmacy sales in focus.

The Street

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.

WEKU

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.

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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

WEKU

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.

Chicago Sun-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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

WEKU

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.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Varo Bank Review 2022: For the customer who prefers mobile banking and a 5.00% APY over the brick-and-mortar experience

Varo Bank offers only a few products, but for no-frills customers, this online-bank could be the right fit.

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Amazon vs Walmart: Who Has the Cheapest Prices?

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

The Street

Walgreens Has a New Offer That's Even Better Than Amazon

The struggling drugstore chain is trying to win customers by beating Amazon at its own game.

Chicago Sun-Times

COVID risk could rise again as federal funding drains, Chicago’s top doc warns

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.

WEKU

Read what a judge told Elizabeth Holmes before sending her to prison for 11 years

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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Why plans to connect big grocers and small farmers haven’t worked, inflation’s impact on local restaurants and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Big-box supermarkets, small local farmers around Chicago have struggled to work together

Here are some of the reasons why ambitious plans to connect big grocers to small farmers have withered — and what the farmers are doing now.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes: What convictions and acquittals led up to her sentencing

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…

Al Jazeera

Walmart offers $3bn to settle lawsuits over role in opioid crisis

Tentative agreement would bring settlement total from lawsuits against various companies to more than $50bn.

Tribune News Service

Walmart agrees to pay $3.1B in opioid settlements after CVS and Walgreens’ $5B proposals

NEW YORK — Walmart agreed to pay $3.1 billion to resolve lawsuits accusing the pharmacy of selling drugs that contributed to the opioid epidemic, but denied the allegations and didn’t admit liability.

Axios

Walmart reaches $3.1 billion deal to settle opioid lawsuits

Walmart said that the proposed framework "does not include any admission of liability."

Reason

Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Unconstitutional, Says Federal Judge

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