Walmart is tackling its $6 billion healthcare bill by pushing employees to see telehealth doctors

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Walmart is offering virtual care benefits through a provider called Included Health.

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Walgreens employees plan walkout this week over miserable working conditions

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User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web

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23andMe user data has been accessed by hackers online.

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A woman who was accidentally given abortion pills by a pharmacy when she was undergoing IVF said her plans to have a big family were shattered

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Target CVS.

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75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have gone on strike. It's the largest healthcare strike in US history.

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Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare employees went on strike Wednesday morning.

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One couple packed up an RV and drove 1,300 miles to give birth in Virginia to escape the high Black maternal mortality rate in Texas

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Mimi Evans took an RV from Texas to Virginia to give birth

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Insurers and drug-industry middlemen are cashing in on the weight-loss drug frenzy

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Medicare's drug-price negotiations will save the government billions in healthcare spending — but patients may not feel the benefits

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When the plan is implemented, prices on negotiated drugs will decrease for up to 9 million seniors, the Biden administration says.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced they're building a computing system to help eliminate human disease by 2100, but costs may be hefty

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

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The distressing downside of fitness trackers

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Fitness trackers have taken over. But is the deluge of fitness data making Americans healthier?

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