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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, according to final figures released Thursday. The official number was 106,699, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Biden administration said Wednesday it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states as flu-sickened patients continue to flock to hospitals and doctors' offices around the count

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) 鈥� Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday that his office is suing Kroger, Albertsons and Rite Aid, arguing their pharmacy chains failed to act as the 鈥渇inal barrier鈥� against opioid over-prescription.

CALGARY 鈥� The Alberta government is hoping to improve ambulance response times by having community shuttles and wheelchair-accessible taxis transport some patients.

MONTREAL 鈥� The new plan to reduce overcrowding in Quebec emergency rooms is paying off, the province's health minister said Wednesday, but a major nurses union said that while the measures are laudable, the situation remains critical.

OTTAWA 鈥� As Canada faces an ongoing shortage of children's medications, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't know if ramping up domestic production of pharmaceuticals is the right approach to addressing the problem.

A new federal law requiring that sesame be listed as an allergen on food labels is having unintended consequences 鈥� increasing the number of products with the ingredient.

GENEVA (AP) 鈥� The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is 鈥渧ery concerned鈥� about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its 鈥渮ero COVID鈥� policy, warning that its lagging vaccinat

Anti-abortion groups hoped and strategized for decades for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that was delivered in June, ending a court-protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. The fallout was immediate and far-reaching 鈥� and it's not over yet.

LONDON (AP) 鈥� Thousands of ambulance workers in Britain began a one-day strike on Wednesday, with unions and the government swapping accusations of blame for putting lives at risk.