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FILE - Jayde Newton helps to set up cardboard gravestones with the names of victims of opioid abuse outside the courthouse where the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy is taking place in White Plains, N.Y., on Aug. 9, 2021. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday, May 30 overturned a lower court's 2021 ruling that found bankruptcy courts did not have the authority to protect members of the Sackler family who own the company and who have not filed for bankruptcy protection from lawsuits.

Ruling clears way for Purdue Pharma to settle opioid claims, protect Sacklers from lawsuits

May 30, 2023, 3:57pm Health

A federal court ruling cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s settlement of thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids. Read story

FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife former first lady Rosalynn Carter sit together during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary on July 10, 2021, in Plains, Ga. The Carter family shared news that Rosalynn Carter has dementia, The Carter Center announced Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, The Carter Center says

May 30, 2023, 3:52pm Health

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, her family announced Tuesday. Read story

FILE - A worker arranges food onto plates in the kitchen of a restaurant in New York on Dec. 14, 2021. Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

Sick workers tied to 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks, CDC says

May 30, 2023, 10:37am Health

Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday. Read story

In this image made from video provided by KCTV, Ralph Yarl, center, wearing a bright green "Team Ralph" shirt, participates in a walk in an event called "Going the Distance for Brain Injury" at Loose Park in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, May 29, 2023. Yarl, a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm in April after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell, walked at the brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting.

Teenager walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head for knocking on wrong door

May 30, 2023, 8:13am Health

Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at a brain injury awareness event in his first major public appearance since the shooting. Read story

New study investigates why some parts of Seattle have high asthma rates

May 30, 2023, 7:28am Health

Dozens of air filters are set to arrive in some South Seattle homes later this year as part of a new study that will explore ways to reduce health and environmental disparities, particularly among children with asthma, in historically more polluted parts of the city. Read story

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Ruling clears way for Purdue Pharma to settle opioid claims, protect Sacklers from lawsuits

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, The Carter Center says

Sick workers tied to 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks, CDC says

Teenager walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head for knocking on wrong door

New study investigates why some parts of Seattle have high asthma rates

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