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Advanced cancers returned to prepandemic levels, …

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the …

FILE - General view of the Memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, the so called Holocaust Memorial in central Berlin, Germany, June 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Walgreens to pay up to $350 million in U.S. opioid settlement

FILE - A Walgreens pharmacy store is seen in Deerfield, Ill., July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

FACT FOCUS: Examining RFK Jr.’s claims about measles, …

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

More pharmacies offer to speed prescription deliveries …

FILE - Media and local officials tour a new Amazon pharmacy, adjacent to a fulfillment center, in Corona, Calif. on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Terry Pierson/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

Behind the story of the decades-long journey of xenotransplantation

FILE - Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone's transplant institute, prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York, July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File)

Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists …

Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms grown to harvest for microdosing sit in a plastic box Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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Taking a mental health leave from work is an option …

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Is your teen sleep-deprived? These expert bedtime …

Mansfield Senior High School teacher Tony Davis talks to his health class about the topic of sleep Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Mansfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

Judge blocks worker protections for abortion and …

FILE - The William L. Guy Federal Building is seen in Bismarck, N.D., April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

Experts make new recommendations on RSV and meningitis …

FILE - This electron microscope image provided by the National Institutes of Health shows human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) virions, colorized blue, and anti-RSV F protein/gold antibodies, colorized yellow, shedding from the surface of human lung cells. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH via AP, File)

WHO member countries agree on a draft ‘pandemic treaty’ …

FILE - A mortuary worker disinfests a coffin carrying the body of a person who died of COVID-19 ahead of a funeral at Memora mortuary in Girona, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

How did the UK Supreme Court define a woman and what …

Women's rights activists celebrate outside the Supreme Court to challenge gender recognition laws, in London, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Key vaccine committee meets for the first time under …

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)