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Sierra Leone is one of the riskiest places to have a baby. One teen fears repeating her mother’s story of dying in childbirth.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine should only be used by people for whom other vaccines are “not accessible or clinically appropriate,” the FDA said.

Paul Spiegel, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about his time in Poland and other countries neighboring Ukraine acting as emergency coordinator for refugee health.

That number is more than double the official toll because it includes excess deaths from other causes largely attributable to overburdened health systems.

Acute hepatitis cases have developed among previously healthy children around the world, including some in the United States. The cause is unknown, and parents should not worry unduly, experts said.

The White House s looking at least one other candidate in a process likely to play out over several weeks, say officials.

Abortion clinics in Republican-led states, like Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi, are scrambling to prepare for an uncertain future.

A major producer of vaccines against anthrax, the biotech company later attracted scrutiny when it was forced to discard 75 million doses of coronavirus vaccine because of possible contamination.

Buried under the skin of the abdomen, the heart device he co-invented monitors irregular heartbeats and can deliver a jolt to shock the heart back to a normal rhythm.

Probe of insurers is opened amid concerns about the future of abortion rights.