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Invasive, disease-carrying tick found in Maine, the …

This handout photo provided by the University of Maine and taken in July, 2025 shows an Asian longhorned tick. (Griffin Dill/University of Maine via AP)

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Another New Hampshire man gets a pig kidney as transplant …

In this photo provided by Mass General Brigham, from left, surgeons Dr. Nahel Elias, Dr. Alban Longchamp, Dr. Tatsuo Kawai and Dr. Shoko Kimura transplant a genetically edited pig kidney into Bill Stewart June 14, 2025 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. (Sarah Evans/Mass General Brigham via AP)

Florida surgeon general Ladapo’s vaccine mandates opposition …

ARCHIVO – El director de salud pública de Florida, el doctor Joseph Ladapo, habla a simpatizantes y miembros de los medios antes de la firma de un proyecto de ley por parte del gobernador Ron DeSantis, el 18 de noviembre de 2021, en Brandon, Florida. (AP Foto/Chris O'Meara, Archivo)

States move to protect vaccines in the face of attempts …

Co-owner Eric Abramowitz at Eric's Rx Shoppe unpacks a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines at the store in Horsham, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Mpox outbreak in Africa is no longer a global health emergency, …

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), briefs the media during a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU), at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

New Ebola outbreak in Congo suspected of causing 15 deaths

FILE - Health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Massachusetts state health insurers to be required to …

FILE - Pharmacist Kenni Clark injects Robert Champion, of Lawrence, Mass., with a booster dosage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at City of Lawrence's "The Center," Dec. 29, 2021, in Lawrence, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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LSD shows promise for reducing anxiety in drugmaker’s …

This photo provided by Catalent shows Catalent's MindMed's formulation of LSD. (Catalent via AP)

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate …

FILE - Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo gestures as speaks to supporters and members of the media before a bill signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Washington, Oregon and California governors form …

FILE - This photo combination shows, from left, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Jan. 31, 2024, in Salem, Ore., Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, Jan. 27, 2025, in Seattle and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Aug. 21, 2025, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, Lindsey Wasson, Godofredo A. Vásquez)

UN-backed experts say more must be done to help people …

FILE - Wasem Attiya pushes his father, Mohamed, 54, in a wheelchair as they head to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for a dialysis session, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

NYC Legionnaires’ outbreak linked to two city-run …

FILE - This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsible for causing the pneumonic disease Legionnaires' disease. (Francis Chandler/CDC via AP, File)

Trump’s new CDC chief: A Washington health insider …

In this photo provided by the Department of Health and Human Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., right, conducts the swearing-in ceremony of Jim O'Neill as the Department's Deputy Secretary, June 9, 2025, in Washington. (Amy Rossetti/Department of Health and Human Services via AP)

New York City doctor who sexually abused patients …