Health

Dr. Sachin Surwase uses a microscope to view cells in the lab where he works on autoimmune research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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)

Christy Morrill, 72, who lost decades of memories to autoimmune encephalitis, holds up a viewfinder with a slide film of himself as a college student while looking through old photographs at his home, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in San Carlos, Calif. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, plays a game of Gaga Ball with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Dr. Kailey Anderson examines a white-cheeked gibbon during a wellness checkup at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Randy Lawrence, president of the Kanawha County Black Lung Association, stands outside his home wearing supplemental oxygen for black lung disease near Cabin Creek, W.Va., Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Dr. Justin Kwong, a research fellow who coaxes human stem cells to grow into a kind of immune cell involved in autoimmune diseases, works in a lab at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Alice Darrow shows a photo of herself from when she was a nurse during World War II, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, at her home in Danville, Calif. (AP Photo/Laure Andrillon)

FILE - A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is pictured at International Community Health Services, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, file)

FILE - A man works out in a public park in Madrid, Spain on July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Gary Sinise, left, and CreatiVets executive director Richard Casper, right, pose for a photo in the Gary Sinise Foundation offices on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

FDA Commissioner Martin Makary speaks during an event about drug prices with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)