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What does the approval of the Pfizer vaccine for teens and preteens mean for my child?

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Can vaccination and infection rates add up to reach COVID herd immunity?

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Students sitting on a bench with markers for social distancing to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus (ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

With schools starting online, vaccinations head for recess

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In this June 10, 2016 photo provided by the Mayo Clinic, a medical team of about 60 doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and others at Mayo Clinic gather before performing the first face transplant surgery at their hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mardini and his team devoted more than 50 Saturdays over 3 1/2 years to rehearsing the procedure, using sets of cadaver heads to transplant the face of one to another. They used 3D imaging and virtual surgery to plot out the bony cuts so the donor's face would fit perfectly on Andy Sandness. (Michael Cleary/Mayo Clinic via AP) (AP)

Life after COVID-19: Doctors ponder best advice as patients recover from coronavirus

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Ambulance staff prepare to transport a patient from the Life Care Center nursing home where some patients have died from COVID-19 in Kirkland, Washington on March 5, 2020. (Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty)

On front lines, first responders brace for coronavirus ― and their own protection

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In campaign to stop teen vaping, states turn to tried-and-true remedy: taxes

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As vaping devices evolve, new potential hazards scrutinized

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Non-English speakers face health setback if Trump loosens language rules

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Vaccine storage too often fails to meet standards

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Meth’s resurgence spotlights lack of meds to combat the addiction

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A man wades through a flooded road as Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico. (Getty/Ricardo Arduengo)

Medicaid patients in Puerto Rico don’t get coverage for drugs to cure Hepatitis C

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With hospitalization losing favor, judges order outpatient mental health treatment

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Deadly shootings are rising in U.S. after steady declines

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Four takeaways on Puerto Rico’s death toll in the wake of Trump’s tweet storm

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A man walks past a house laying in flood water in Catano town, in Juana Matos, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (Getty/Hector Retamal)

In weary post-storm Puerto Rico, Medicaid cutbacks bode new ills

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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2016 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCaskill is warning her party it could be politically dangerous to block President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP)

How to save a choking senator

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A car drives under tilted power line poles in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Humacao, Puerto Rico. (Getty/Ricardo Arduengo)

Puerto Rico’s water system stutters back to normal

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How Medicaid became a go-to funder for schools

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Challenges abound for 26-year-olds falling off parental insurance cliff

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New on the streets: Drug for nerve pain boosts high for opioid abusers

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An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

A new Zika threat hovers as summer’s mosquitos get bzzzzy

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Segregated living linked to higher blood pressure among blacks

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