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FILE - This Jan. 9, 2017 file photo shows Idaho Lt. Gov. Brad Little watches the proceedings before the State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building in Boise, Idaho. Officials in Republican-dominant states are pushing legislation ahead of midterm elections that would punish both doctors and patients for abortions. Little said at a forum month earlier that he would like to sign such a measure into law but acknowledged that it might not stand up in court. Little later told AP he “probably would” support it but had not seen anything in writing. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger, File)
Some GOP officials urge charges for women who get abortionsA push to punish women who get abortions has gained steam in Republican-dominant states ahead of the midterm elections
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FILE – In this June 27, 2016, file photo, "Dance Moms" star Abby Lee Miller, after pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud and failing to report thousands of dollars in Australian currency she brought into the U.S., leaves federal court in Pittsburgh. Miller underwent spinal surgery Tuesday, April 17, 2018, and was then diagnosed with a cancer of the immune system, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, her doctor Hooman Melamed told People.com. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
'Dance Moms' star Miller has cancer, underwent spine surgeryFormer "Dance Moms" reality TV star Abby Lee Miller has been diagnosed with cancer
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FILE - This May 23, 2017 file photo shows GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex, a medicine made from the marijuana plant but without THC. On Thursday, April 19, 2018, a panel of Food and Drug Administration health advisers recommended approval of the drug, moving the closely watched medication closer to the U.S. market. (AP Photo/Kathy Young, File)
US experts back marijuana-based drug for childhood seizuresUS panel says a medicine made from the marijuana plant should be approved to treat severe epileptic seizures in children
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 file photo, a Manila Health officer shows off a pair of vials of the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia in Manila, Philippines. The World Health Organization says that the first-ever vaccine for dengue needs to be dealt with in “a much safer way.” It said the shot should mostly be given to people who have previously been infected with the disease. In November, the vaccine’s manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur, said that people who had never been sickened by dengue before were at risk of developing more serious disease after getting the shot. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, file)
UN health agency: Dengue vaccine shouldn't be used widelyThe World Health Organization says that the first-ever vaccine for dengue needs to be dealt with in "a much safer way" and mostly given to people previously infected with the disease.
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New data: Americans filling far fewer opioid prescriptionsNew data show that prescriptions for opioid painkillers filled in the U.S. had their biggest drop in 25 years in 2017
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Man Gets Life Sentence for Infecting 5 With HIVFor the first time in the UK, a man has been found guilty of intentionally infecting others with HIV. Daryll Rowe, 27, was sentenced Wednesday to life behind bars with a minimum term of 12 years for infecting five men via unprotected sex and trying to infect five others by...
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This photo provided by OrganOx on April 18, 2018 shows the company's metra device, used to keep organs functioning during transport. On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, British researchers said that keeping at least some transplant livers at body temperature may work better than cooling _ using a machine that pumps them full of blood and nutrients. (OrganOx via AP)
Warming, not cooling, donated livers may improve transplantsStudy suggests warming, not cooling, donated livers may improve organ transplants
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FILE - In this June 26, 2015, file photo, a couple holds hands during their wedding ceremony in Atlanta. In a report released on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, researchers found that melanoma patients who are married tend to be diagnosed at an earlier more treatable stage than patients who are unmarried, widowed or divorced. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Spouses can boost early detection for melanoma patientsMarried patients with melanoma are slightly more likely to be diagnosed in earlier more treatable stages than unmarried patients
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This undated microscope image provided by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in January 2018 shows a trophectoderm biopsy, in which cells from the outer layer of an embryo that develop into the placenta and amniotic membranes are removed and can be used for genetic testing. When a couple is known to be at risk for having a child with a specific genetic disorder, the woman undergoes a procedure to remove some of her eggs. After fertilization, some cells can be plucked from the embryos and examined to identify those without carry the disease-causing abnormality. (ASRM via AP)Wedn
Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profileA prominent biomedical ethics expert has a startling prediction about how children will be conceived in the future: Couples will choose from among dozens of embryos, each with a deep DNA profile
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FILE - In this June 26, 2017, file photo, Desiree Hennessy attends to her adopted son Hestevan, who has Cerebral Palsy and suffers from chronic nerve pain, seizure disorder, during the Utah Patients Coalition news conference, in Salt Lake City. The push for legalized marijuana has moved into Utah and Oklahoma, two of the most conservative states in the country, further underscoring how quickly feelings about marijuana are changing in the United States. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Medical marijuana push spreads to Utah, OklahomaThe push for legalized marijuana has moved into Utah and Oklahoma, two of the most conservative states in the country
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Citing opioid crisis, feds seek rule change for drugmakersDrugmakers would be required to identify the legitimate need for controlled substances to justify their production under a proposed rule intended to rein in the diversion of drugs for illicit purposes
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FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo shows the Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, U.S. health officials proposed steps to improve the government’s system for overseeing medical devices, which has been subject to years of criticism for failing to catch problems with risky implants and medical instruments. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
US regulators float ideas for boosting medical device safetyUS health officials propose steps to improve the government's oversight of medical devices
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