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Cassandra Barksdale, who says she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer due to a tissue labelling mistake, poses at her attorney's office in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilie Megnien)

Georgia woman says she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and had hysterectomy due to labeling error

By Kim Chandler and Emilie Megnien - Associated Press

Anna Hicks places the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in a refrigerator at the Andrews County Health Department's measles clinic, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) **FILE**

Virginia child with measles visited two Kaiser Permanente medical facilities

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers Selene Lockerbie, left, and her husband Colin Lockerbie dance to celebrate the end of a three day strike outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages entered its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Kaiser Permanente workers ratify contract after strike over wages and staffing levels

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Kaiser Permanente frontline healthcare workers picket outside the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Unions representing 75,000 health care workers who recently held a strike against industry giant Kaiser Permanente over wages and staffing shortages have reached a tentative agreement with the company. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Kaiser Permanente reaches a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent strike

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Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers Selene Lockerbie, left, and her husband Colin Lockerbie dance to celebrate the end of a three day strike outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages entered its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Kaiser Permanente workers announce another potential walkout

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Kaiser Permanent workers picket Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Baldwin Park, Calif. Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente hospital employees who say understaffing is hurting patient care walked off the job in five states and the District of Columbia, kicking off a major health care worker strike.(AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Health care strike over staff shortages, wages heads into final day with no deal in sight

By Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

Kaiser Permanente mental health workers and supporters march outside a Kaiser facility in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022. Roughly 75,000 health care workers at the Kaiser Permanente hospital system are poised to go on a three-day strike at hospitals in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia and Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Thousands of U.S. health care workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages

By Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The National Institutes of Health is opening a handful of studies to start testing possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition. The announcement, Monday, July 31, 2023 comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or years with sometimes disabling health problems. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

Uptick in COVID-19 cases sparks the return of mask mandates in spots

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This image provided by Eisai in January 2023 shows vials and packaging for their medication, Leqembi. Several health plans in the U.S. will not cover the recently approved Alzheimer’s drug for certain customers, exposing those patients to thousands of dollars in potential costs. Their decision stands in contrast to Medicare. The federal coverage program mainly for people ages 65 and older announced in July 2023 that it will cover Leqembi shortly after regulators gave the drug full approval. (Eisai via AP, File)

Insurers won’t cover new Alzheimer’s treatment for some customers

By Tom Murphy - Associated Press

Medical staff from left, Helen Cordova, Kim Taylor, Brian Thompson, Raul Aguilar, and Angela Balam pose for photos after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, on Dec. 14, 2020. An alliance of unions representing 50,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in California, Oregon and six other states has called off a strike notice after reaching a tentative labor deal with the health care network. Both sides announced the agreement on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, staving off a potentially crippling strike. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)FILE

Kaiser Permanente, unions reach labor deal to avert strike

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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**

Seattle-area church fights state law requiring insurance coverage for abortion services

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Hundreds of Special Olympics athletes in Hawaii get vaccine

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Sri Lankan health workers leave after receiving COVID-19 vaccines in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Sri Lanka has begun inoculating frontline health workers, military troops and police officers against COVID-19 amid warnings about infections among medical workers. The island nation has received 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine donated by India and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

The Latest: Vaccinated congressman tests positive for virus

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

State urges teachers to return to classrooms — shot or not

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

Hospitals fined $184K for hiding workers’ virus infections

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The emergency entrance at the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center is shown in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. A Kaiser Permanente employee is dead and dozens of workers have contracted the coronavirus after a staffer appeared at a Northern California medical center wearing an inflatable, air-powered holiday costume on Christmas Day, the hospital and health care company said Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group via AP)

Hospital fined $43,000 for deadly post-holiday outbreak

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The Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center is shown in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. A Kaiser Permanente employee is dead and dozens of workers have contracted the coronavirus after a staffer appeared at a Northern California medical center wearing an inflatable, air-powered holiday costume on Christmas Day, the hospital and health care company said Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group via AP)

Costume could be link to deadly virus outbreak at hospital

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2020, file photo, medical workers prepare to manually prone a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. California surpassed 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic, reporting the grim milestone Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, as it continues to face a surge that has swamped hospitals and pushed nurses and doctors to the breaking point as they brace for an anticipated surge after the holidays. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Los Angeles mayor says virus spreading within households

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press

Five doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine that received emergency use authorization are seen before they are distributed to doctors and nurses at George Washington University Hospital, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

D.C. first responders, health care workers receive vaccine

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Lori Gonzalez, left, and Rachel Spray carry flowers to the temporary grave marker of Gonzalez's sister and Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center nurse, Sandra Oldfield, at the Sanger Cemetery in Sanger, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. Oldfield died after being exposed to the novel coronavirus. Workers at the hospital said they did not have the proper personal protective equipment. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

US medical supply chains failed, and COVID deaths followed

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press