UMass Memorial Medical Center and the UMass Chan Medical School have been locked in a bitter legal dispute over the sale of the hospital's pharmacy business.
By delaying confrontation with the for-profit medical monopolization of care, a historically conservative medical field has accrued outsize cultural and policy power over Americans' lives.
Walgreens does not admit to any guilt and instead will pay a $230 million settlement over the next 14 years, with most of that money paid during the first eight years.
The recent announcement from CVS Health about the closure of its clinical trials unit, initiated only two years ago during the COVID-19 pandemic, has ignited a flurry of speculation.