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A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Animal sedative medetomidine is showing up in the US illegal drug supply, CDC says

Three new health reports detail growing concern about an animal sedative that’s showing up in the nation’s illegal drug supply. Medetomidine was first detected in illegally manufactured opioids is North America in 2022.

A vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine prepared for use in a trial at St. George's University hospital in London, Oct. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

FDA scrutiny of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine sparks uncertainty about other shots

This photo provided by Emily’s Entourage in April 2025 shows Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, who has cystic fibrosis caused by a rare genetic mutation, during a trip to Maine. (Emily’s Entourage via AP)

Genetic medicine can leave people with rare mutations behind. But there’s new hope

Supervisor Matt Dorsey is shown during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

San Francisco inches closer to adopting drug policy with abstinence as its primary goal

This 2016 illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on electron microscope imagery, depicts Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which causes whooping cough. (Meredith Newlove/CDC via AP, File)

Whooping cough cases are rising again in the US

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FDA approves the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV

It’s the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions – although it’s unclear how many in the U.S. and abroad will get access to the powerful new option. (AP video by Lekan Oyekanmi/AP produced by Javier Arciga)

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US clears updated COVID shots from Novavax, adding a 3rd fall vaccine option

FILE - Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch speaks before a crowd at a Trump for President rally in Jackson, Miss., June 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi sues drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers over opioids

Three days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses. The plan to vaccinate Gaza’s young against polio | AP Explains

CORRECTS NAME: Displaced infant Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian, who suffers from polio, sleeps at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A baby in Gaza has a strain of polio linked to mistakes in eradication campaign, experts say

U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich announces a $10.8 mil. settlement with St. Peter's Health over violations of the False Claims Act on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)

Montana doctor overprescribed meds and overbilled health care to pad his income, prosecutors say

Christophe Chavilinga, suffering from mpox, waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, Congo, Aug. 16, 2024. The World Health Organization declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa has almost 4,000 new mpox cases in a week, but the wait for vaccines continues

Four-year-old Murillo, who suffers from severe epilepsy, watches TV at his grandparent's home in Guaruja, Brazil, Monday, July 8, 2024. To lessen and shorten his seizures, Murillo takes a steady dose of liquid cannabidiol or CBD, that his mother, pictured in background, acquires for free through Sao Paulo state’s public health system. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazilian moms are leading the charge to secure CBD for sick kids

New Covid-19 vaccines receive FDA approval

This photo provided by Pfizer in August 2024 shows a packaging for the company's updated COVID vaccine for ages 12 and up, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (Steven Decroos/Pfizer via AP)

FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days

FILE - A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a study on Alzheimer's disease at Georgetown University Hospital, on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

UK drug regulator approves Alzheimer’s drug but government likely won’t pay for it

A health worker attends to a mpox patient, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo reports more than 1,000 new mpox cases in a week. African authorities ask for vaccines

Children suffering from mpox wait for a treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo says it will receive its first mpox vaccines next week to address new global emergency

As polio threat rises in Gaza, aid groups urge cease-fire for mass vaccination drives

COVID-19 is on the upswing in the US, according to CDC data

FILE - Actor Matthew Perry participates in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the mini-series "The Kennedys After Camelot" in New York on March 30, 2017. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

What is ketamine, the drug involved in Matthew Perry’s death?

FILE -Matthew Perry appears at the premiere of "Ride" in Los Angeles on April 28, 2015. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

Matthew Perry’s death leads to sweeping indictment of 5, including doctors and a reputed dealer

FILE -Matthew Perry appears at the premiere of "Ride" in Los Angeles on April 28, 2015. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

Matthew Perry’s assistant among 5 people, including 2 doctors, charged in ‘Friends’ star’s death

This photo supplied by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) dated May 31, 2023, shows health workers educating children on the symptoms of the mpox disease in Goma, Congo. (Augustin Mudiayi/Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières via AP)

WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads

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Pfizer CEO on moving beyond COVID vaccines to become a leader in cancer and obesity treatments

A customer browses an aisle at a Walgreens pharmacy store in Deerfield, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2024. America's drugstores are testing smaller locations and making bigger bets on health care as they adjust to customers who need them less for convenience. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Drugstores tinker with new looks as their usual way of doing business faces challenges

Lauren Bell stands for a portrait at Crescent Park in New Orleans, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Bell, who takes over-the-counter medications occasionally to treat her symptoms, first started posting on Instagram about her struggle with IBS – how isolating it was and how she felt like she was having to rearrange her life and diet around her food sensitivities – and sharing her diagnosis with her friends. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Younger adults are going public with their digestive problems. Experts say it’s mostly a good thing

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. African health officials said mpox cases have spiked by 160% in the last year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of effective treatments or vaccines on the continent. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Mpox cases have surged by 160% in Africa so far this year, but few treatments and vaccines available

FILE -North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, left, walks together with Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, during Putin's departure ceremony at an international airport outside Pyongyang, North Korea, June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Photo via AP, File)

North Korean officials seek medicine for Kim’s health problems related to obesity, Seoul says

First positive doping test at Paris Olympics is Iraqi judoka for anabolic steroids

In this photo provided by the Heroic Hearts Project, Jesse Gould adds 22 dog tags signifying the number of veterans estimated to die by suicide in one day, at a memorial paying tribute to the estimated 150,000 veterans who have lost their lives to suicide over the past 20 years, displayed near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 10, 2024. (Michael Schoen/Heroic Hearts Project via AP)

Veterans lobbied for psychedelic therapy, but it may not be enough to save MDMA drug application

Veterans lobbied hard for psychedelic therapy, but it may not be enough to save flawed MDMA drug

Experts say twice-yearly injection that offers young women 100% protection against HIV is exciting news

A pharmacist holds a vial of lenacapavir, the new HIV prevention injectable drug, at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation's Masiphumelele Research Site, in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, which was one of the sites for Gilead's lenacapavir drug trial. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is ‘stunning’

FILE - Prescription drugs are seen in a glass flask at a state laboratory in Taylorsville, Utah, on July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Too many pills? How to talk to your doctor about reviewing what’s needed

Too many pills? How to talk to your doctor about reviewing what’s needed