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Mifepristone has become a central flashpoint in the political battle over abortion at the state level in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Doctors and other experts say parents have alternatives if they encounter empty store shelves.

Massachusetts stands to receive $230 million under agreements reached with CVS and Walgreens resolving allegations that the companies contributed to the opioid crisis by failing to properly oversee the dispensing of opioids at their stores.

The decision to close the three Walgreens locations in Boston neighborhoods, leaving two of those communities without a convenient pharmacy, isn’t sitting well with residents. Hennie Beaman lives in Mattapan and is upset the Walgreens at 90 River St. is closing. “This store was just open three or four years ago and now they are closing again?  It’s absolutely ridiculous.”...

The decision to close the three locations, leaving two of those three neighborhoods without a convenient pharmacies, isn’t sitting well with residents.

There was confusion in Cambridge Monday when two Walgreens pharmacies temporarily closed unexpectedly. The company said a pharmacist shortage is to blame.

A Massachusetts state representative says he’s investigating why two Walgreens pharmacies in Cambridge closed abruptly. The two pharmacies — one in Central Square, the other nearby in Riverside — left some customers “in the lurch” without access to prescriptions they had already gotten filled, Rep. Mike Connolly said on Twitter Monday. On Monday, Walgreens’ website listed both locations as temporarily…

A federal judge in Cleveland has awarded $650 million in damages to two Ohio counties that sued pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart saying their opioid distribution policies created a public nuisance.

After a clerk at a national chain refused to sell a couple condoms because of “religious conviction,” the man scheduled a vasectomy.

Walgreens to open 10 primary care practices in Mass.

In Chelsea District Court, Daniel Cote, 32, of Revere was ordered held without bail on charges that he shot at police officers responding to a call Friday night of an armed man acting erratically on Broadway, one of Revere’s busiest streets.

A man who was injured in a police shooting in Revere, Massachusetts, was ordered held without bail Monday on charges that he shot at police officers responding to a call Friday night of an armed man acting erratically on one of the city’s busiest streets. Daniel Cote, 32, of Revere, was arraigned Monday in Chelsea District Court on charges of…

One suspect was shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital with what’s considered a non-life threatening injury, Revere police said.

A person was injured Friday night in a police shooting that happened on a street in between a Walgreens pharmacy and TD Bank in Revere, Massachusetts. Revere police said around 9:30 p.m. that they were investigating the shooting at Broadway and Fernwood Avenue. One suspect was shot in the leg and taken to a local hospital with what’s considered...

Most of the defendants in Florida’s lawsuit over the opioid epidemic have settled for more than $870 million, according to the state attorney general

Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company’s blood-testing methods weren’t working as she had promised.

Holiday season could strain COVID-19 home test supplies as more Americans try to screen themselves before Thanksgiving and other family gatherings

A 15-year-old teenager who went missing in Wakefield, Massachusetts, has been found, police said. Lilyana Halliday had last been seen Tuesday afternoon outside of a Walgreens in the town with a friend, Wakefield police said. No further information was immediately available.

Two national pharmacy chains that the federal government entrusted to inoculate people against COVID-19 account for the lion’s share of wasted vaccine doses, according to government data obtained by KHN.

How do you schedule an appointment at local pharmacies and which vaccine will you get? Here’s what you need to know.