With National HIV Testing Day on June 27, Richmond and Henrico Health Districts officials are encouraging people who may be at risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus to seek testing. HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and also can spread through injection drug use.
According to Centers for Disease Control
A judge has accepted settlement agreements between several families and HCA Health Services of Virginia, the company that owns Henrico Doctor's Hospital, where multiple babies were allegedly abused in the NICU.
The settlement hearings took place Friday in Salem, Virginia, nearly three hours from the hospital.
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Virginia will receive as much as $103.8 million as part of an anticipated $7.4-billion national settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family that would resolve litigation against the two groups for their role in the nationwide opioid epidemic.
Fifty-five attorneys general, representing all eligible states