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FILE - Opponents of a bill to repeal Connecticut's religious exemption for required school vaccinations march down Capitol Avenue before the State Senate voted on legislation on April 27, 2021, in Hartford, Conn. Connecticut eliminated its longstanding religious waiver for vaccinations in 2021, joining California, West Virginia, New York and Maine in allowing only medical exemptions. (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant via AP, File)

Health officials push to get schoolchildren vaccinated as more US parents opt out

Parents are opting out of school vaccinations at the highest rate ever. Last school year, that amounted to 3% of U.S. children entering kindergarten.
 
Alan Shurtleff, left, Morgan Shurtleff, right, and their daughter, 1-year-old Cora Dibert, pose for a photo at The Bridge Church, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Mustang, Okla. When Cora went for a routine blood test in October, the toddler brought along her favorite new snack: a squeeze pouch of WanaBana cinnamon-flavored apple puree. Within a week, the family got an alarming call. The test showed that the 1-year-old had lead poisoning, with nearly four times as much lead as the level that raises concern. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

Parents of children sickened by lead linked to tainted fruit pouches fear for kids’ future

 
FILE - Elf Bar disposable vaping pod devices are displayed, Monday, June 26, 2023, in Washington. In December 2023, U.S. authorities publicly announced the first seizure of some of the company’s shipments, part of an operation confiscating 1.4 million illegal, flavored e-cigarettes from China. They pegged the value of the items at $18 million, including brands other than Elf Bar. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Elf Bar and other e-cigarette makers dodged US customs and taxes after China’s ban on vaping flavors

 
This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2023, shows three recalled applesauce products - WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches, Schnucks-brand cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches and variety pack, and Weis-brand cinnamon applesauce pouches. U.S. food inspectors found “extremely high” lead levels in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that made applesauce pouches tainted with the metal. The recalled pouches have been linked to dozens of illnesses in U.S. kids. The FDA said Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, the agency is continuing to investigate. (FDA via AP)

FDA finds ‘extremely high’ lead levels in cinnamon at Ecuador plant that made tainted fruit pouches

 
Cantaloupe halves are displayed for sale at a supermarket in New York on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. In 2023, hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada have been sickened in a growing outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

Here’s what you need to know about the deadly salmonella outbreak tied to cantaloupes

 
Dr. Jennifer Gaubert, a physical therapist, helps introduce Freya Baudoin,18 months, to her new mobility chair, at the Children's Hospital New Orleans Rehabilitation Center in Metairie, La., Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. Tulane science and engineering students are making the second batch of mobility chairs for toddlers, that will eventually go to pediatric patients at Children's Hospital. Wheelchairs are expensive, and insurance won't cover the cost for children unless the child proves they can operate it independently. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Custom made by Tulane students, mobility chairs help special needs toddlers get moving

 

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Here’s what you need to know about the deadly salmonella outbreak tied to cantaloupe

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Two gene therapies for sickle cell disease approved in US

U.S. regulators have approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease. Doctors hope they can cure the painful inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. (Dec. 8)(AP Video: Mary Conlon)

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As billions roll in to fight the US opioid epidemic, one county shows how recovery can work

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Pilot program at historically Black college aims to address racial inequities in organ donation

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US approves meat grown from animal cells

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Paleoartist brings back faces from the ancient past

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FILE - A Rite Aid sign is displayed on the facade of a store in Pittsburgh, Jan. 23, 2023. Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition technology for five years over allegations that a surveillance system it used incorrectly identified potential shoplifters, especially Black, Latino, Asian or female shoppers. The deal announced late Tuesday, Dec. 19, settles Federal Trade Commission charges that the struggling drugstore chain didn’t do enough to prevent harm to its customers and implement “reasonable procedures,” the government agency said. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)

Rite Aid banned from facial recognition tech use for 5 years after faulty theft targeting in stores

Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition technology for five years over allegations that a surveillance system it used incorrectly identified potential shoplifters, especially Black, Latino, Asian or female shoppers.
 
FILE - A beam scale is seen in New York on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A study of young kids in the Women, Infants and Children program adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children. The update was published Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, in the journal Pediatrics. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

A new study bolsters evidence that severe obesity is increasing in young kids in the US

A new study adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children. There was some hope that children in a government food program might be bucking a trend in obesity rates.
 
FILE - Varieties of disposable flavored electronic cigarette devices manufactured by EB Design, formerly known as Elf Bar, are displayed at a store in Pinecrest, Fla., Monday, June 26, 2023. On Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, U.S. officials announced they have recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from the Chinese manufacturer behind Elf Bar, a line of fruity disposable vapes that has become the top brand among underage American teens. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

US officials block Elf Bar-maker and others from importing 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes

U.S. officials recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from overseas manufacturers, including the company behind Elf Bar.
 
Gautam Dongre, of the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Organizations, sits for a portrait with his daughter, Sumedha, 13, at their residence in Nagpur, India, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. Dongre recalls how his newborn son, Girish, cried constantly from stomach and leg pain. Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong and didn’t diagnose him with sickle cell for 2 1/2 years. When Sumedha was born, he and his wife had her tested immediately and learned she had the disease too. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Sickle cell affects more families in Africa and India, but new gene therapies are out of reach

New gene therapies promise a cure for sickle cell disease but experts say they are out of reach in places that need them the most.
 
FILE - Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 22, 2010. Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S., and one of the two drugs use — mifepristone — will now go in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024. As states have imposed bans or restrictions or seek to limit abortions after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, demand for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol have grown. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

A common abortion pill will come before the US Supreme Court. Here’s how mifepristone works

Medication abortion is the preferred method of ending pregnancy in the U.S. Mifepristone is one of the two drugs used and it will go in front of the U.S.
 
FILE - CBD wax is displayed at a shop in Sunset Hills, Mo., on June 27, 2019. CBD use increased 50% in the past four years, according to a new survey published Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (Brian Munoz/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

More people are using CBD products. There’s still little research on the benefits and risks

A new survey shows 1 in 5 Americans used CBD in the past year. This is despite a lack of research on the benefits and risks of CBD and other compounds that come from hemp.
 
FILE - A hospital exam room is seen in Alabama on Thursday, July 30, 2015. A large Swedish study, published Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in JAMA Psychiatry, has uncovered a paradox about people diagnosed with an excessive fear of serious illness: They tend to die earlier than people who aren’t hypervigilant about health concerns. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

In hypochondria paradox, Swedish study finds a higher death rate in those who fear serious illness

A Swedish study has uncovered a paradox about people diagnosed with an excessive fear of serious illness: They tend to die earlier than people who aren’t hypervigilant about health concerns.
 
A selection of eye drops line a shelf at a pharmacy in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. A series of recalls involving over-the-counter drops is drawing new attention to just how little U.S. officials know about the conditions at manufacturing plants on the other side of the world and the limited tools they have to force products off the market when there's a problem. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

After recalls and infections, experts say safer eyedrops will require new FDA powers

Repeated recalls of eyedrops are drawing new attention to the limited powers U.S. regulators have to oversee medical products made overseas.
 
FILE - A man walks by Pfizer headquarters, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 in New York. Pfizer released a financial outlook for next year that that doesn't match with Wall Street expectations as sales of COVID-19 products slide. Shares tumbled more than 7% before the opening bell Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Switch from selling COVID-19 drugs on market rather than to governments continues to sting at Pfizer

Pfizer’s forecast for sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment next year falls more than $5 billion short of the Wall Street consensus.
 
Jillaine St.Michel stands for a portrait in Boise, Idaho on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. A year earlier, she learned that her previous 20-week fetus had multiple genetic and developmental problems and probably wouldn’t survive. She lives in Idaho, which has a ban on abortions, so St.Michel and her husband called about 15 out-of-state clinics, finally getting on a three-week waiting list in Denver and a two-week waiting list in Seattle. Pregnant again, she is due to give birth to a boy in January. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

It’s taking longer to get an abortion in the US. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures

Obstacles to obtaining an abortion are more common since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
 
Jalen Matthews sits on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the disease led to a spinal cord stroke that left her with some paralysis in her left arm and leg. “I had to learn how to walk again, feed myself, clothe myself, basically learn how to do everything all over again,” said Matthews, who is now 26. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

FDA approves 2 gene therapies for sickle cell. One is the first to use the editing tool CRISPR

U.S. regulators have approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease. Doctors hope the treatments can cure the painful inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S.
 
FILE - An Elf Bar disposable vaping pod device and a health warning on its packaging is displayed, Monday, June 26, 2023, in Washington. U.S. lawmakers are demanding information on federal efforts to stop the recent influx of kid-appealing electronic cigarettes from China. A letter sent Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, by a congressional committee investigating Chinese policies called attention to “the extreme proliferation of illicit vaping products.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Lawmakers seek action against Elf Bar and other fruity e-cigarettes imported from China

House lawmakers are demanding information on federal efforts to stop the influx of kid-appealing electronic cigarettes from China.
 
FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. Annual mammograms are now recommended indefinitely for breast cancer survivors in many countries including the United States. Now a large British study finds that less frequent screening is just as good. The findings were being discussed Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Breast cancer survivors may not need so many mammograms after surgery, UK study suggests

A large British study finds that less frequent screening is just as good as annual mammograms for certain breast cancer survivors.
 
FILE - Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and exhibits long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Rose, 67, said many of her symptoms waned after she got vaccinated, though she still has bouts of fatigue and memory loss. U.S. health officials estimate 3.3 million Americans have chronic fatigue syndrome — a bigger number than previous studies have suggested, and one likely boosted by patients with long COVID, according to results released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Chronic fatigue syndrome is not rare, says new CDC survey. It affects 3.3 million U.S. adults

Health officials are releasing the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million.
 
Cut cantaloupe is displayed for sale at a supermarket in Philadelphia on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. On Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, U.S. and Canadian officials reported additional deaths and illnesses in a salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe. (AP Photo/Jonathan Poet)

Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. and 5 in Canada

A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people _ three in the U.S. and five in Canada.
 
Asian Davis, 33, of Sikeston, Mo., cradles her 8-month-old daughter, Mira White during an interview on Oct. 3, 2023, in St. Louis. Davis and her lawyers say Mira suffered brain damage in March after developing bacterial meningitis tied to powdered infant formula contaminated with Cronobacter sakazakii, a germ known to cause severe disease in young babies. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

Two babies infected with dangerous bacteria sometimes found in powdered infant formula

A Kentucky child is dead and a Missouri infant has brain damage from the same kind of bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year.
 
FILE - Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. White House officials will take more time to review a sweeping plan from U.S. health regulators to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that anti-tobacco groups fear could scuttle the long-awaited rule. Biden administration officials indicated Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 the process will continue into next year, targeting March to implement the rule, according to a regulatory agenda posted online. Previously, the rule was widely expected to be published in early January. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

White House delays menthol cigarette ban, alarming anti-smoking advocates

The White House is pushing back a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that quickly sparked criticism from anti-smoking groups.
 
This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2023, shows three recalled applesauce products - WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches, Schnucks-brand cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches and variety pack, and Weis-brand cinnamon applesauce pouches. In December 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched an inspection of a plant in Ecuador that made the cinnamon applesauce pouches linked to dozens of cases of acute lead poisoning in U.S. children. (FDA via AP)

FDA is inspecting plant in Ecuador that made lead-tainted fruit pouches

U.S. health officials have launched an inspection of a plant in Ecuador that made the cinnamon applesauce pouches linked to dozens of cases of acute lead poisoning in U.S. children.
 
FILE - A nurse checks the vitals of a 33-year-old woman in Shreveport, La., on Oct. 9, 2021. A survey by KFF, a health policy research group, released Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, shows 60% of Black patients said they prepare for insults or feel they have to be careful about their appearance in order to be treated fairly by health providers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Patients of color more often brace for unfair treatment in health care, survey finds

A new survey shows 55% of Black patients said they feel like they must be very careful about their appearance to be treated fairly at medical visits.
 
FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Seasonal flu continues to pick up steam in the U.S. But among respiratory viruses, COVID-19 remains the main cause of hospitalizations and deaths, health officials said Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Flu is on the rise while RSV infections may be peaking, US health officials say

U.S. health officials say flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections may be peaking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that COVID-19 remains the main cause of hospitalizations and deaths in the country.
 
FILE - The Pfizer logo is displayed at the company's headquarters, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in New York. Pfizer shares sank Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, when the drugmaker announced that it was abandoning a twice-daily obesity treatment after more than half the patients in a clinical trial stopped taking it. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Pfizer nixes more study of twice-daily obesity pill treatment that made many patients nauseous

Pfizer shares sank Friday when the drugmaker announced that it was abandoning a twice-daily obesity treatment after more than half the patients in a clinical trial stopped taking it.
 
FILE - Cantaloupes are displayed for sale in Virginia on July 28, 2017. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, said it was advising people to stop eating precut cantaloupe if they don't know where it came from due to a deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning that continues to grow. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Don’t eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the source is unknown, CDC says, as deadly salmonella outbreak grows

U.S. health officials say consumers should not eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don’t know the source.
 
FILE - This Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, shows the exterior of AbbVie, in Lake Bluff, Ill. AbbVie is buying ImmunoGen in a deal valued at about $10.1 billion with the goal of speeding the pharmaceutical's entry into the market for ovarian cancer treatments. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Drugmaker AbbVie to spend over $10B on ImmunoGen to juice its cancer-fighting treatment portfolio

AbbVie is spending more than $10 billion to add a potential blockbuster cancer treatment as cheaper versions of the drugmaker’s all-time best seller, Humira, cut into sales.
 
FILE - A woman dances as she listens to music while attending a World AIDS Day commemoration at Nkosi's Haven in Johannesburg on Nov. 30, 2019 on the eve of World AIDS Day. AIDS experts said Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023 that an African-based company will start producing vaginal rings that protect against HIV within the next few years, potentially offering millions of women across the continent a cheap way to reduce their risk. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

South African company to start making vaginal rings that protect against HIV

A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available.
 
FILE - A couple walks through a park at sunset, March 10, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. U.S. life expectancy rose in 2022 — by more than a year — after plunging two straight years at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new government report released Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. The rise was mainly due to the waning of the pandemic in 2022, researchers said at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
FILE - Cantaloupes are displayed for sale in Virginia on Saturday, July 28, 2017. U.S. health officials recalled three more brands of whole and pre-cut cantaloupes Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 as the number of people sickened by salmonella more than doubled this week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FDA expands cantaloupe recall after salmonella infections double in a week

The number of people sickened by salmonella from cut and whole cantaloupes has more than doubled in a week.
 
FILE - Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen from a cooler at a vaccinations site on Aug. 29, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time during the country's biggest-ever outbreak, in a worrying development African scientists warn could make it more difficult to stop the disease. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

UN confirms sexual spread of mpox in Congo for the 1st time as country sees a record outbreak

The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak.
 
FILE - Patients use nebulizers during a test for the presence of TB, at the Tembalete, a U.S. funded Right to Care Clinic at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008. In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

South Africa, Colombia and others are fighting drugmakers over access to TB and HIV drugs

In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV.
 
FILE - Residents wearing face masks line up behind barricaded tapes for COVID mass testing near a residential area on May 15, 2022, in Beijing. The World Health Organization says it’s made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters

The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.
 
This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2023, shows three recalled applesauce products - WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches, Schnucks-brand cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches and variety pack, and Weis-brand cinnamon applesauce pouches. In December 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched an inspection of a plant in Ecuador that made the cinnamon applesauce pouches linked to dozens of cases of acute lead poisoning in U.S. children. (FDA via AP)

Several more children sickened by fruit pouches tainted with lead, FDA says

U.S. health officials are reporting more cases of children sickened by fruit puree pouches that were recalled due to lead contamination.