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Target, CVS Health and Publix Super Markets  on Thursday joined the growing list of major retailers that will require customers to wear masks as cases of COVID-19 spike.

Walmart and Sam’s Club became the latest chains to mandate mask use in stores, joining Starbucks, Costco and Apple. Those stores require masks even in states where face coverings in public spaces are not mandatory.

The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state of Connecticut is down 70 from a day earlier, according to the governor. This is one of the largest single-day decreases in hospitalizations, down around 40 percent from the peak a few weeks ago. The number of hospitalizations is a key figure that Gov. Ned Lamont has been watching as his administration…

Nine new drive-thru coronavirus testing sites opened at CVS locations across Massachusetts.

Nine CVS locations are now offering drive-thru coronavirus testing in Massachusetts.

CVS and the United Parcel Service will start using drones next month to deliver prescription medications to residents in a Florida retirement community in an effort to maintain social distancing measures, UPS announced Monday.

Thousands of people will soon be able to drive to a nearby parking lot, swab their noses and find out within minutes if they have the coronavirus. CVS Health and Walgreens each opened one drive-thru testing location last month — but they’re now expanding the number of sites and opening them to the general public. Their first drive-thrus were restricted to first...

CVS Health will roll out a free, rapid COVID-19 test at its new drive-through testing site at a Rhode Island casino, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced Monday. The testing site, which will be by-appointment only, opens Monday at Twin River Casino in Lincoln. Results from test being administered at the site could be ready in as little as 15 minutes, the…

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced Saturday that anyone with coronavirus symptoms should now reach out to medical professionals to get tested.

CVS Health Chief Executive Larry Merlo said a lack of personal protective equipment has slowed the widespread rollout of its drive-thru tests for the coronavirus and limited the number of tests that sites are able to do.

A child was rescued by the Dedham Fire Department after he fell through the roof of a CVS Wednesday.

Three Meriden police officers were on what police referred to as administrative assignments after a shooting in October and police said the officers were found to have acted within the law and department policy.

A 24-year-old woman is dead after her car crashed into a CVS pharmacy overnight in Beverly, Massachusetts in what police said appeared to be an intentional act. Police said the woman’s car crashed into the side of the CVS on Dodge Street sometime before 2 a.m., killing the driver. The vehicle left a gaping hole in the structure.

A car crashed into the brick building of a Beverly, Massachusetts CVS Pharmacy.

A Purdue University engineering student said he denied the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine by a CVS employee who refused to accept his Puerto Rican driver’s license and U.S. passport as valid identification and questioned his immigration status. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. José Guzmán Payano, a junior at Purdue, went...

Walmart, CVS Health and Rite Aid are pulling all containers of Johnson & Johnson’s 22-ounce baby powder after the FDA found sub-trace amounts of asbestos, the companies confirmed Thursday. “CVS Pharmacy is complying with Johnson & Johnson’s voluntary recall of Johnson’s Baby Powder 22 oz. and is removing this product from all stores and from CVS.com,” spokesman Mike DeAngelis said...

Rite-Aid and Walgreens have joined CVS in halting the sales of popular heartburn treatment Zantac and its generic store brand after warnings by U.S. health regulators. It’s the latest precautionary move by retailers and manufacturers after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently warned consumers about a potentially dangerous contaminant in prescription and over-the-counter versions of Zantac.

The pharmacy chain pulled Zantac and generic versions of the heartburn drug from its stores after traces of a known carcinogen were found in some products.

The federal judge in Cleveland overseeing national opioid litigation denied the requests Thursday of several drug companies that he remove himself from the case. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster said in his order that he has done nothing over the past two years to favor cities and counties seeking money from the pharmaceutical industry to cover their costs of...

The University of Rhode Island is getting a $35 million gift from former CVS president and CEO Thomas Ryan and his wife, Cathy, the largest private contribution in the school’s history. The gift announced Monday includes $24 million for the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience to expand research and teaching capacity in neuroscience; $10 million to establish the...