Healthcare

Magaly Quispe sostiene a su bebé Aron, de cinco meses, quien fue operado del corazón y necesita oxígeno, en La Paz, Bolivia, el martes 19 de mayo de 2026, en medio de lo que los médicos describen como escasez de oxígeno medicinal causada por los bloqueos de carreteras de manifestantes que exigen la renuncia del presidente. (Foto AP/Freddy Barragán)

Ronan Murphy hugs his mother, Andrea, while looking at the snow falling outside their home in Ayer, Mass., on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

FILE - A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Dr. Melissa Buddensee, left, meets with patient Susan Bushby at Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in Franconia, N.H., in the final days before the clinic closes for good. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. The hospital was once known among locals as the "Crase Yard," or yard for crazy people. Now it's known as the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. It has helped give the facility, the oldest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, a new reputation. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Deb Robertson sits for a portrait at her Lombard, Ill. home, March 21, 2024. She didn’t cry when she learned two months ago that the cancerous tumors in her liver were spreading, portending a tormented death. But later, she cried after receiving a call that a bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their own lives with a doctor’s help had made progress. AP PHOTO / CHARLES REX ARBOGAST