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A man brings his baby killed in Israeli bombardment to Al Asa Hospital in Deir el-Balah City, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement has enrolled …

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during Georgia Chamber Congressional Luncheon at The Classic Center, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Athens, Ga. Figures show a health plan for low-income adults backed by the Republican Kemp enrolled only 1,343 people through its first three months.(Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But …

Post-doctoral researcher Tofunmi Omiye, right, gestures while talking in his office with assistant professor Roxana Daneshjou at the Stanford School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. A new study led by Stanford researchers cautions that popular chatbots are perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas, prompting concerns that the tools could worsen health disparities for Black patients. Omiye co-led the study and Daneshjou was a faculty advisor. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Affordable Care Act provisions codified under Michigan …

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit, May 4, 2023, in Oxon Hill, Md. Key healthcare protections in the Affordable Care Act were codified into Michigan law Thursday, Oct. Oct. 19, 2023, by Whitmer in a proactive move that she said was necessary after recent Supreme Court rulings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Australia’s Lynas to upgrade Malaysian rare earth refinery …

FILE - Construction vehicles are parked at the site of Lynas' rare earths plant in Gebeng, eastern Malaysia, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Australian miner Lynas Rare Earths said Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, that it will temporarily shut down most of its operations in Malaysia for upgrading as it deals with a legal battle with the Malaysian government over its operating license. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

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FDA is thinking about a ban on hair-straightening …

Kayleigh Butler, a hair stylist, stands for a portrait at her studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. “Relaxers have taken an extreme decline ... as we became more knowledgeable about the effects of the relaxer on your hair and what it can do to your hair,” says Butler, who remembers getting relaxers when she was 5 years old. She added: “I think people just wanted to move away from that and live a healthier lifestyle.” (AP Photo/Kenya Hunter)

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker takes his fight for abortion …

FILE - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker looks out over the crowd during the Illinois Paid Leave bill signing ceremony Monday, March 13, 2023, in Chicago. Pritzker is taking his advocacy for abortion rights nationwide, forming a political organization to fund like-minded efforts outside Illinois, a state that legalized abortion by statute even before the Supreme Court invalidated the right to seek one. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

People of African ancestry are poorly represented …

FILE - This undated image made available by the National Human Genome Research Institute shows the output from a DNA sequencer. Scientists are setting out to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry to create what they believe will be the world’s largest database of genomic information from the population. (NHGRI via AP, File)

Maryland medical waste incinerator to pay $1.75M …

FILE - Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown speaks during a news conference, April 6, 2023, in Baltimore. On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, the Maryland Attorney General's Office and other officials announced that a medical waste processing company has pleaded guilty to a litany of environmental crimes and agreed to pay $1.75 million in fines after state prosecutors accused a south Baltimore incineration plant of exposing the public to bio-hazardous material. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)

Rite Aid’s bankruptcy plan stirs worries of new ‘pharmacy …

A Rite Aid sign stands in front of one of the drugstore's locations in Pittsburgh on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. Rite Aid’s plan to close more stores as part of its bankruptcy process raises concern about how that might hurt access to medicine and care. The drugstore chain said late Sunday, Oct. 15, that its voluntary Chapter 11 process will allow it to speed up its plan to close underperforming stores. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

A Tonga surgeon to lead WHO’s Western Pacific after …