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Albuquerque officer Ryan Holets holds his newly adopted daughter, Hope, after being recognized by the city of Albuquerque on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. In September, Holets convinced a pregnant woman he found using heroin to let him adopt her unborn child. That baby, Hope, is now recovering for being born with an addiction. Holets and his wife have four other children. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras) ** FILE **

CDC: Share of opioid-addicted women giving birth spiked with crisis

The share of pregnant women who gave birth while hooked on opioids more than quadrupled as the U.S. addiction crisis exploded, the government said Thursday in the first multistate analysis of the epidemic's potential impact on newborns and their moms.

August 9, 2018
In this Dec. 16, 2016 file photo, Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez caresses her two-month-old son Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. In the first long-term look at what happened to children of U.S. mothers who were infected with Zika during pregnancy, one in seven developed some kind of health problem _ranging from birth defects to conditions that became apparent only later. Health officials released the findings Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

One in 7 babies exposed to Zika face health problems: CDC

One in seven babies born to Zika-infected mothers in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories had some form of defect or developed a neurological problem, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

August 7, 2018
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows 53 percent of Americans support a national health care plan. Still, 47 percent said they would be able to keep their current health insurance arrangement under single-payer, which would probably not be the case.

Health care heats up election debate

Eight years and five election cycles after the 2010 Affordable Care Act's passage, health care remains a powerful political issue -- and neither Republicans' push for skimpier, cheaper options nor Democrats' demand for more robust and costly coverage has prevailed.

July 29, 2018
In this Feb. 11, 2009, file photo, a shopper looks over the milk aisle at the Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, Vt. Soy and almond drinks don’t come from cows, so regulators may soon ask them to stop calling themselves “milk.” The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines “milk” as coming from the “milking of one or more healthy cows.” That would mark a change for the agency, which has not aggressively gone after the proliferation of plant-based drinks labeled as “milk.” (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

FDA wants to clarify what’s ‘milk’ and what’s not

Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb drew chuckles this month when he hinted at a crackdown on products that call themselves "milk" but aren't drawn from an animal, quipping: "An almond doesn't lactate, I will confess."

July 26, 2018
"It's so counterintuitive to think that paying out of pocket is going to be cheaper than using your insurance," Sen. Susan Collins said. "Using your debit card is going to be cheaper than using your insurance card?" (Associated Press)

Susan Collins writes bill to ban gag clauses at pharmacy

Sen. Susan Collins was astonished to learn that some pharmacists are "gagged" from being able to tell customers they can save money by paying cash for their prescriptions, instead of relying on their insurance and making the co-payment.

July 25, 2018
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. speaks on May 29, 2018, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Sinema has come a long way from her days as a green party activist as she seeks to become the first Democrat to represent Arizona in the Senate in 30 years. (AP Photo/Matt York)

House votes to repeal medical device tax

The House voted Tuesday to repeal Obamacare's tax on medical device sales, part of a weeklong GOP effort to reel in health costs and blunt Democrats' sharpest critique ahead of the midterm elections.

July 24, 2018
FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, May 31, 2018, Congolese health officials prepare to disinfect people and buildings at the general referral hospital in Mbandaka, Congo. Congo's Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga on Tuesday July 24, 2018, declared the end of the country's latest deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus, after a 42-day observation period with no new confirmed cases recorded. (AP Photo/John Bompengo, FILE)

WHO: Ebola outbreak in the Congo is over

An Ebola outbreak that sparked fears of another global health crisis and a rapid response to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been successfully contained, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

July 24, 2018
President Trump used a series of tweets to argue that heavily redacted documents show that FBI agents misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by using a dossier partly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign to obtain a warrant to snoop on Carter Page. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump says FBI ‘illegally spied’ on Carter Page, campaign

President Trump on Sunday said top-secret documents prove the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign in an "illegal scam," putting him at odds with Capitol Hill lawmakers, including Republicans, who insist federal authorities were justified in tracking foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

July 22, 2018