Meryl Kornfield

The 19-month-old toddler was napping when her family discovered she had died.

A trial will be held later to determine how much Walgreens must pay San Francisco to address the harms of the opioid crisis.

A newly created nationwide system allows grass-roots groups to order naloxone directly from an online store at a discount, thanks to agreements with drugmakers.

The drugmaker would pay $3 billion in cash and $1.2 billion in donated overdose-reversing drug Narcan. Communities can opt to receive the medication rather than cash, Teva said.

Judge David A. Faber dismissed the argument made by Cabell County and its seat, Huntington, that three drug distributors bore responsibility for the consequences of an inundation of opioids.

Scientists said the name should be changed because the recent international outbreak of the rare but potentially serious viral illness has no connection to the African continent, where it has been historically endemic.

Why scientists are worried about the outbreak of a disease not previously known to spread easily among humans.

The risk to the general public is “very, very low,” a health expert says, and investigators are looking into how the virus is spreading.

The sobering tally is a 15 percent increase from the previous year. More than 1 million Americans have now died of drug overdoses in the 21st century, according to federal data released Wednesday.

Local and state governments representing about 90 percent of the U.S. population have signed on to the deal with the major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson.