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Florida center says ‘Grey Team’ technology, exercise …

Vietnam veteran Fred Kalfon, 81, right, works with personal trainer Trish Phan, left, at the Grey Team veterans center, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Boca Raton, Fla. The center is helping veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental and physical ailments get back into the civilian world. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Alzheimer’s drug gets FDA panel’s backing, setting the …

FILE - This Dec. 21, 2022, image provided by Eisai in January 2023 shows vials and packaging for their medication Leqembi. On Friday, June 9, 2023, health advisers backed the full approval of the closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, a key step toward opening insurance coverage to U.S. seniors with early stages of the brain-robbing disease. (Eisai via AP, File)

Florida’s ‘Dr. Deep’ resurfaces after a record 100 days …

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, diving explorer and medical researcher Dr. Joseph Dituri hugs his lead physician, Dr. Sarah Spelsberg, Friday, June 9, 2023, after living for 100 days in the Jules' Undersea Lodge marine habitat at the bottom of a lagoon in Key Largo, Fla. Dituri broke the previous 73-day record for underwater human habitation at ambient pressure, undertook medical and marine science research and interacted online with more than 5,500 students during his Project Neptune 100 mission organized by the Marine Resources Development Foundation. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 coordinator, to leave …

FILE - White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week. A White House official said Jha will return to Brown University, where he had served as the dean of the university’s school of public health before joining the White House as its COVID-19 coordinator in April 2022.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Lifesaving fentanyl test strips still illegal in some …

Kim Adams of the SOAR Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent drug overdoses in Ohio, packs fentanyl testing strips to be shipped out to anonymous recipients on April 13, 2023, at their office in Columbus, Ohio. The test strips, previously labeled as illegal drug paraphernalia, were only recently decriminalized in the state this spring as part of a nationwide effort to save people who use drugs from overdosing on the deadly synthetic opioid. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson)

Italian court throws out case alleging early pandemic …

FILE - Then Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, talks with Health Minister Roberto Speranza at the Senate, in Rome, on Jan. 19, 2021. The Court of Ministers in Brescia on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, threw out the case against ex-Premier Giuseppe Conte and ex-Health Minister Roberto Speranza, alleging they failed to extend the lockdown to Bergamo and adjacent valleys in the early days of the pandemic, causing unwarranted deaths. Both officials have said they acted according to scientific knowledge and expert opinion available at the time. Conte told RAI state TV that the decision “comforts me.” (Andreas Solaro/Pool via AP)

Air pollution cloaks eastern US for a second day. Here’s …

The sun rises over a hazy New York City skyline as seen from Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Newer heart transplant method could allow more patients …

In this photo provided by Duke Health, surgeons Dr. Jacob Schroder, left, and Dr. Zachary Fitch perform a heart transplant at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., in October 2022. Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain dead, but research published by Duke Health on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It's called donation after circulatory death, a method long used to recover kidneys and other organs but not more fragile hearts. (Shawn Rocco/Duke Health via AP)

What kind of surgery did Pope Francis have, and why?

FILE-- Pope Francis appears on a balcony of the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, July 11, 2021, where he was recovering from intestinal surgery, for the traditional Sunday blessing and Angelus prayer. The Vatican said Francis, 86, would be put under general anesthesia for the procedure Wednesday afternoon, June 07, 2023, and would be hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli hospital for several days. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Missouri governor signs ban on transgender health …

FILE - Glenda Starke wears a transgender flag as a counter protest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation, March 20, 2023, at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson City, Mo. Transgender minors and some adults in Missouri will soon be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed Wednesday, June 7, 2003, by the state's Republican governor. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Court seeks compromise that might preserve preventive …

FILE - The healthcare.gov website is seen on Dec. 14, 2021, in Fort Washington, Md. A federal appeals court in New Orleans prepared to hear arguments Tuesday, June 6, 2023, on whether insurers can be required to provide coverage for certain types of preventive care, including HIV prevention and certain types of cancer screening, under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Abortion providers sue Kansas over longstanding waiting …

FILE - Zoe Schell, from Topeka, Kan., stands on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse during a rally to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion, June 24, 2022, in Topeka. Abortion providers sued Kansas on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, challenging a new law requiring them to tell patients that an abortion medication can be stopped but also existing restrictions that include a decades-old requirement that patients wait 24 hours to terminate their pregnancies. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

HIV protection, cancer screenings could cost more …

FILE - The healthcare.gov website is seen on Dec. 14, 2021, in Fort Washington, Md. A federal appeals court in New Orleans prepared to hear arguments Tuesday, June 6, 2023, on whether insurers can be required to provide coverage for certain types of preventive care, including HIV prevention and certain types of cancer screening, under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)