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This image provided by Kate Cox shows Kate Cox. A Texas judge has given the pregnant woman whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the state’s ban that took effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. It was unclear Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 how quickly or whether Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from the Dallas area, will be able to obtain an abortion. State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble says she will grant a temporary restraining order that will allow Cox to have an abortion. (Kate Cox via AP)

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FDA approves 2 gene therapies for sickle cell. One is …

Jalen Matthews sits on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the disease led to a spinal cord stroke that left her with some paralysis in her left arm and leg. “I had to learn how to walk again, feed myself, clothe myself, basically learn how to do everything all over again,” said Matthews, who is now 26. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Breast cancer survivors may not need so many mammograms …

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. Annual mammograms are now recommended indefinitely for breast cancer survivors in many countries including the United States. Now a large British study finds that less frequent screening is just as good. The findings were being discussed Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

The Census Bureau wants to change how it asks about disabilities. …

FILE - Maureen Reid, left, and her guide dog, Gaston, cross the intersection of Wood Street and Roosevelt Avenue with Sandy Murillo, center, and Geovanni Bahena, relying on an audible signal for the blind, on April 26, 2023, in Chicago. The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates are complaining that they were not consulted enough on what amounts to a major overhaul in how disabilities would be defined by the federal government. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an …

FILE - Demonstrators march and gather near the state capitol following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, to let her terminate the pregnancy, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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FILE - Mary Burnham Curtis, a senior forensic scientist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, holds a dried totoaba fish bladder, among more than 500 that authorities have seized at Calexico border crossings since February, at news conference April 24, 2013, in San Diego. A health company called The Blue Formula sells a powder containing collagen taken from the fish online to countries including the U.S. and China, but on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, a coalition of environmental groups said exporting totoaba or its parts violates an international convention on trading endangered species. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. …

Cut cantaloupe is displayed for sale at a supermarket in Philadelphia on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. On Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, U.S. and Canadian officials reported additional deaths in a salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe. (AP Photo/Jonathan Poet)

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Britain's former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for the COVID Inquiry at Dorland House in London, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Two babies infected with dangerous bacteria sometimes …

Asian Davis, 33, of Sikeston, Mo., cradles her 8-month-old daughter Mira White during an interview on Oct. 3, 2023, in St. Louis. Davis and her lawyers say Mira suffered brain damage in March after developing bacterial meningitis tied to powdered infant formula contaminated with Cronobacter sakazakii, a germ known to cause severe disease in young babies. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

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