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This image provided by GlaxoSmithKline shows the company's Shingrix vaccine. On Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine to prevent painful shingles in people aged 50 or older. Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said the approval came Friday from the Food and Drug Administration. It will be the second vaccine for shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus. Merck has sold a shingles vaccine for about a decade. (GlaxoSmithKline via AP)
FDA approves better vaccine against painful shingles virusUS regulators approve a new, more effective vaccine to prevent painful shingles caused by the chickenpox virus
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Officials: Jambalaya at fundraiser sickens more than 100Louisiana's health department says salmonella from the chicken and sausage jambalaya at a softball team's fundraiser may have killed one person and apparently has made more than 100 people ill
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., makes a call as senators arrive for votes at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Top Dems nix White House demands to alter health care dealTop Senate Democrats are rejecting White House demands to change the bipartisan compromise aimed at steadying unsettled insurance markets
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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Glenn Chin, supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, leaves federal court after attending the first day of his trial in Boston. Closing arguments are expected Thursday, Oct. 19. Chin is charged with second-degree murder and other crimes under federal racketeering law for his role in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds of others. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Morning smog envelops the skyline in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollutants are killing at least 9 million people and costing the world $4.6 trillion a year, a toll exceeding that of wars, smoking, hunger or natural disasters, according to a study released Thursday in The Lancet medical journal. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Study: Pollution kills 9 million a year, costs $4.6 trillionEnvironmental pollutants are killing at least 9 million people and costing the world $4.6 trillion a year, a toll exceeding that of war, smoking, hunger or natural disasters
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FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, during his meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma, at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, South Africa. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has long faced United States sanctions over his government's human rights abuses, but the World Health Organization new director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus is making the longtime African leader a "goodwill ambassador" Friday Oct. 20, 2017.(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
WHO chief selects Zimbabwe's Mugabe as 'goodwill ambassador'World Health Organization's chief selects Zimbabwe's Mugabe as 'goodwill ambassador'
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Ibrahima Soce Fall, Regional Emergency Director for Africa, of the World Health Organization, WHO, speaks during a press conference, about the Update on the plague situation in Madagascar, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
94 deaths from plague in Madagascar, UN health agency says94 deaths from plague in Madagascar, World Health Organization says
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Delhi's landmark India Gate, a war memorial, is seen engulfed in morning smog a day after Diwali festival, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 - about 9 million - could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 in The Lancet medical journal. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Countries with the highest pollution deaths, mortality ratesCountries with the highest pollution deaths, mortality rates: study
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Graphic shows Gallup poll of U.S. adults who say they lack health insurance; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;
Uninsured rate up to 12.3 percent amid "Obamacare" turmoilGallup-Sharecare survey: Uninsured rate rises to about 12.3 percent of US adults amid "Obamacare" turmoil
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Australian state takes step toward legalizing euthanasiaAn Australian state has taken a step toward allowing voluntary euthanasia 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy killing law
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters as he heads to vote on budget amendments, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Bipartisan plan to curb health premiums gets strong supportA bipartisan proposal to calm churning health insurance markets is gaining momentum
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