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The company has made a number of attempts to incorporate healthcare into its platform and has started building momentum after some initial setbacks.

The company said that customers in College Station, Texas, can now get prescriptions delivered by a drone within an hour of placing their order.

The retail giant said customers can visit its virtual clinic through its website or app. There, they can compare prices and response times before picking a telemedicine provider from several options.

The health company runs a membership-based service, and the two sides said membership to the service will be available to new U.S. customers for $144 – a 28% discount - for the first year.

Amazon will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships. People will pay $5 a month to fill as many prescriptions as they need from a list of about 50 generic medications.

Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance, the suit claims.

Amazon Care was launched in 2019 for Seattle-based Amazon’s Washington state employees, who served as trial users before the company made it available last year to its workers in all 50 states.

Amazon is buying One Medical, a primary care practice. The tech giant has already stepped into the health care world, but experts said this is a big step to expand Amazon's physical health presence.

The administration is renewing U.S. support to WHO and getting a boost from Amazon, which is offering its network and advanced technologies to assist in distributing vaccines.

Federal law generally prohibits dietary supplements from claiming to treat specific diseases or viruses. Yet NPR found more than 100 products sold on Amazon that make unsubstantiated antiviral claims.