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This photo provided by eGenesis on Jan. 18, 2024 shows a genetically modified pig liver in Massachusetts before transportation to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in December 2023. (eGenesis via AP)

FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.

Pfizer signage is displayed at the Pfizer NYC Headquarters, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Pfizer ends development of potential pill obesity treatment

A vaccination that includes a polio dose is prepared for a child at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Takeaways from AP’s report on how flat funding set stage for Texas measles outbreak, might fuel more

Cesar Acevedo, left, holds his infant son, Adriel Acevedo, as as nurse Tracey McElroy, right, prepares to give him a vaccination that included a polio dose at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, is accompanied by Susan Levy, Native Health Communications and Community Relations director, during a tour of the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center, in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kennedy says Health and Human Services will determine the cause of autism by September

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Lab workers at Johns Hopkins University work in Richard Huganir's lab in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts

Mexican authorities find 275,000 fentanyl pills, powder hidden in boxes of cactus pieces

Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home in Front Royal, Va., on Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Novo Nordisk cuts Wegovy prices, following similar move by Zepbound-maker Eli Lilly

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump's choice to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing, at Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump nominee to lead National Institutes of Health questioned on funding cuts, vaccines

In this image from video provided by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Dr. Martin Makary speaks during a select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic roundtable in Washington on Feb. 28, 2023. (Committee on Oversight and Government Reform via AP)

Trump’s FDA pick made his name by bashing the medical establishment. Soon he may be leading it

A sign for flu vaccination is displayed on a screen at a pharmacy store in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Harsh flu season has health officials worried about brain complications in children

A doctor holds a vial of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in Chicago on Aug. 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

CDC report adds to evidence that HPV vaccine is preventing cervical cancer in US women

FILE -A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez), File)

Measles is popping up in the US. Here’s how to avoid one of the world’s most contagious viruses

A young man smokes Kush, a derivative of cannabis mixed with synthetic drugs like fentanyl and tramadol and chemicals like formaldehyde, at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)

The main ingredients in Sierra Leone’s kush are synthetic opioids and cannabinoids, report finds

Paul Mack poses for a portrait in Redwood City, Calif., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Patients struggle with lack of consistent coverage for popular weight-loss drugs

This photo provided by the West Virginia Legislature shows Republican Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman, chair of the West Virginia Senate Health and Human Resources Committee, holding a map of the U.S. on the Senate floor depicting the states, including West Virginia, that do not allow religious or philosophical exemptions for required school vaccinations, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 in Charleston, West Virginia. (Will Price/West Virginia Legislature via AP)

West Virginia Senate OKs bill allowing for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions

A woman holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home in Front Royal, Va., on March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Yearslong shortage of popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs is resolved, FDA says

Doctors say Pope Francis receiving occasional supplemental oxygen, responding to strengthened drug therapy for pneumonia

A sign stands at an entrance to the main campus of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

CDC vaccination committee meeting postponed days after RFK Jr. took over at HHS

Eric Timpson gives blood at the American Red Cross Donation Center, March 23, 2020, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah Republicans push to let patients supply their own blood as vaccine concerns linger

Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks after being sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it

Nuns sit next to a statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment for bronchitis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican says the pope has a ‘polymicrobial respiratory tract infection.’ What is that?

An abortion- rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades,File)

New York doctor is fined in Texas, charged in Louisiana over abortion pills in tests of shield laws

President Donald Trump points to a reporter and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines

Vatican says pope has mild fever, is in fair condition with respiratory tract infection and is receiving drug therapy

Pope Francis meets with Czech Republic's Prime Minister Robert Fico, right, at The Vatican Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Pope has respiratory tract infection, is in fair condition and running mild fever, Vatican says

Medical personnel vaccinate students at a school in New Orleans on Jan. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Jackson, File)

Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state’s top health official says

A woman holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home in Front Royal, Va., on March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Could obesity drugs help with alcohol cravings? New study suggests potential

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for a reception at Palais de l'Elysee in Paris on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada appoints former Mountie as fentanyl czar to combat production of the dangerous opioid

Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

What to know about proposals to ban abortion pills and punish women who seek abortion

Measles and tetanus vaccine vials are ready to be administered at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, on March 8, 2019. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions

A sign for Eli Lilly & Co. appears outside their corporate headquarters in Indianapolis on April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Diabetes and obesity drugs fuel Eli Lilly profit in the final quarter of 2024

This undated photo provided by Shanon Schmidtknecht shows Cole Schmidtknecht of Appleton, Wis., who died of an asthma attack on Jan. 21, 2024. (Shanon Schmidtknecht via AP)

Wisconsin couple sues Walgreens and Optum Rx, saying son died after $500 price rise for asthma meds

Volunteers hand out numbers to pet owners waiting in line at a free dog vaccine clinic to combat a canine Parvovirus outbreak on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Emily Steinberger)

Dogs sit and stay to get vaccinated against parvovirus at San Francisco free clinic