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

Louisiana lawmakers pass bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe and mail abortion pills

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state.

William Perry, founder of This Must Be The Place, holds free naloxone medication to be given out to concert goers at the Governors Ball Music Festival on Sunday, June 9, 2025, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Music festivals have become more open to harm reduction initiatives. How far will it go?

The New York state Senate meets in the Senate Chamber on the opening day of the legislative session at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York lawmakers approve bill that would allow medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill

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, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

This image from video provided by the Department of Health and Human Services shows Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking alongside Food and Drug Administration administrator Dr. Martin Makary, left, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, as they announce that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women. (Health and Human Services via AP)

Who’s in charge? CDC’s leadership ‘crisis’ apparent amid new COVID-19 vaccine guidance

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Telehealth clinics help women defy abortion bans, but legal battles loom

Every month, thousands of women evade abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to send them pregnancy-ending drugs through the mail. But questions remain about whether the practice is legal. (AP Video: Rodrique Ngowi)

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A patient infected with chikungunya looks out from mosquito netting at the Clinicas Hospital in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Friday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, file)

US health officials advise older travelers not to get a chikungunya vaccine

Trump sets 30-day deadline for pharmaceutical companies to lower US drug prices in executive order

Boxes for the medications Wegovy and Zepbound are arranged for a photograph in California on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia)

Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs

Drug companies to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle Plavix blood thinner lawsuit

CORRECTS NAME TO MEGYN INSTEAD OF MEGAN - FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

On podcasts, Trump’s surgeon general pick touts organics, questions vaccines and talks spirituality

In Mexico’s measles outbreak, Mennonites face vaccine misinformation

Mennonites Abraham Fehr and Katarina Wall hold their baby as he gets vaccinated weeks after the family fell sick with measles during an outbreak in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua state, Mexico, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

Vaccine teams in Mexico scramble over measles outbreak rippling out from Mennonite community

FILE — In this Feb. 6, 2020 file photo, a man buys a face mask at a pharmacy in Kitwe, Zambia. Zambia faces a Friday deadline to clear debt owed to external investors who have rejected the country's request for deferral of an overdue $42.5 million interest payment amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emmanuel Mwiche/File)

US says it will reduce health aid to Zambia because medicines were stolen and sold

Burn patients face excruciating recovery as medicines dwindle under Israeli blockade of Gaza

Iman Abu Shabab, 30, stands next to her 7-year-old son, Hamza, who lies in bed with third-degree burns caused when, frightened by an Israeli airstrike, he spilled a hot plate of rice and lentils on himself in the family's tent in southern Gaza last month, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Burn patients face excruciating recovery as medicines dwindle under Israeli blockade of Gaza

CORRECTS NAME TO MEGYN INSTEAD OF MEGAN - FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general

A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Moderna study shows immune response in older adults for a combo flu and COVID-19 shot

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, right, greets Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates during their meeting at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Bill Gates meets Indonesian leader to discuss health and sustainable development initiatives

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program

One community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then their study was cut.

Dr. Joshua Williams, a pediatrician whose federal funding for a vaccine awareness program was cut, examines 12-year-old patient Tiovian Darden in Denver on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study

Driver may have had health emergency before Illinois crash that killed 4

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

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

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Rx and Illicit drug Summit, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

RFK Jr. recounts heroin addiction and spiritual awakening, urges focus on prevention and community

Two women ride horses in a path full of bluebells, also known as wild hyacinth, in the Hallerbos forest, south of Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Bluebells and other spring flowers can be nature’s antidote to stressful times

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)

Novavax says its COVID-19 shot is on track for full FDA approval after delay

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)

FACT FOCUS: Examining RFK Jr.'s claims about measles, autism and diet as head of HHS

FILE California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends the 2025 Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook convening on Feb. 26, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Californians can now buy opioid reversal drugs from the state online

A pharmacy manager works in the 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)

More pharmacies offer to speed prescription deliveries to customers

Marine Corps combat veteran Matt Metzger poses for a portrait with a plate of mushrooms that he grows himself for microdosing psilocybin, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims

Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims