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In this June 22, 2021, file photo, nurse Jody Berry draws a syringe full of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at Mother's Brewing Company in Springfield, Mo. New York threw a ticker-tape parade Wednesday, July 7, for the health care workers and others who helped the city get through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri struggled to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta variant and deep resistance to getting vaccinated. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP) ** FILE **

Medical groups call for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination among health workers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Congress should address Medicare problems due to pandemic STAT

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FILE - In this March 20, 2019 file photo, the Supreme Court Building is shown in Washington. The American Medical Association is asking the Supreme Court to strike down a Trump administration rule that's had a far-reaching impact on the nation’s family planning program. It prohibits clinics from referring women for abortions. The move Thursday by the nation's largest doctors' group came after two federal appeals courts split on the legality of the rule. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Doctors ask Supreme Court to strike down Trump abortion rule

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Belvin Jefferson White poses with a portrait of her father Saymon Jefferson at Saymon's home in Baton Rouge, La. Belvin recently lost both her father and her uncle, Willie Lee Jefferson, to COVID-19. African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

By Kat Stafford and Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

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When healers become agents of death, not life

By Frederick J. White

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Toward faith and good lifestyle choices

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 file photo, a woman using an electronic cigarette exhales a puff of smoke in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Massachusetts lawmakers have approved the nation's toughest restrictions on flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes. The ban was passed by the Senate early Thursday, Nov. 21, before the legislature broke for a holiday recess. It had earlier been passed by the state House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

The AMA declares war on vaping and public health

By Jacob James Rich

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2013 file photo, an abortion protester stands outside the Red River Valley Women's Clinic in Fargo, N.D. North Dakota's sole abortion clinic filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, June, 24, 2019, over two state laws it believes forces doctors to lie, including one measure passed this year requiring physicians to tell women that they may reverse a so-called medication abortion if they have second thoughts. The complaint from the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of the Red River Women's Clinic. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)

North Dakota abortion clinic files federal suit over 2 laws

By DAVE KOLPACK - Associated Press

This April 3, 2018, file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. A study released on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, found U.S. preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of shrinking obesity weren’t a fluke. Obesity rates dropped to about 14 percent in 2016, the latest data available and a steady decline from 16 percent in 2010, researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File) ** FILE **

Obesity rates among preschool children receiving federal aid declines

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this July 10, 2018, photo, protesters hold signs supporting Planned Parenthood in Seattle, as they demonstrate against President Donald Trump and his choice of federal appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his second nominee to the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, March 5, 2019, the American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood jointly filed a federal court lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule for family-planning grants which had been sought by anti-abortion activists. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Lawsuit: Trump family-planning rule ‘politicizes’ medicine

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Three dockless scooters stand on a sidewalk across the street from a Johnson &amp; Wales University campus, Friday, July 20, 2018, in downtown Providence, R.I. A California company left its electric rental scooters on city sidewalks in Providence, and in Cambridge and Somerville, Mass., Friday without warning. (AP Photo/ Jennifer McDermott)

Electric scooter injuries scrutinized in first-of-its-kind medical study

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Women in rural Wisconsin lack access to maternity care

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WV native to become first black woman president of AMA

By JOE SEVERINO - Associated Press

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

American Medical Association condemns Trump family separation policy at the border

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

American Medical Association adopts sweeping gun control policies

By Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press