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This photo provided by Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. shows the Symjepi syringe, prefilled with the hormone epinephrine, which helps stop life-threatening allergic reactions from insect stings and bites or eating foods such as nuts and eggs. On Thursday, June 15, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. product, which is expected to go on sale later in 2017. (Audacity Health/Courtesy of Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. via AP)

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Daniel Kanter, medical director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, center right, speaks alongside Jordan Bonomo, a neurointensivist, center left, and Brandon Foreman, a neurointensive care specialist, right, during a news conference regarding Otto Warmbier's condition, Thursday, June 15, 2017, at University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati. Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released to his home state of Ohio on Tuesday in a coma. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Daniel Kanter, medical director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, center, speaks alongside Jordan Bonomo, a neurointensivist, left, and Brandon Foreman, a neurointensive care specialist, right, during a news conference regarding Otto Warmbier's condition, Thursday, June 15, 2017, at University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati. Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released to his home state of Ohio on Tuesday in a coma. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, stands alongside one of her attorneys, Steven P. Tramontin, during her arraignment on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at Genesee District Court in downtown Flint. Wells is charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer, and was released on a personal recognizance bond. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

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Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, listens to District Court Judge Nathaniel Perry read her charges during her arraignment on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at Genesee District Court in downtown Flint. Wells is charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer, and was released on a personal recognizance bond. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

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Nick Lyon, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services director, walks out of the courtroom after his release on a cash bond following his arraignment on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at Genesee District Court in downtown Flint. Lyon is charged with misconduct in office for allegedly obstructing university researchers who are studying if the surge in cases was linked to the Flint River. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

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FILE--In this Thursday, June 8, 2017, file photograph, workers toil on one of the buildings on the campus of the Veterans Administration hospital under construction in Aurora, Colo. A former Veterans Affairs Department executive who was harshly criticized by Congress for massive cost overruns at the new Colorado VA medical center said he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion before he left the agency and still does not know how it happened. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)

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FILE--In this Tuesday, April 22, 2014, file photograph, Glenn Haggstrom, front, principal executive director, and Stella Fiotes, executive director, then with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, testify during a Congressional field hearing at the State Capitol in Denver on the cost overruns and delays with the construction and completion of the VA Hospital in Aurora. Haggstrom, the former top construction official for the Veterans Affairs Department, told The Associated Press that he was never apprised of the cost overruns at the new hospital even though he was harshly criticized by Congress for the project's price tag. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post via AP)

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In this May 4, 2017 photo, Melissa Jones, center, a nurse educator with Alosa Health, speaks with social worker Jean Easter, left, and physician's assistant Emily Braunegg in the lunch room of a medical office in Monroeville, Pa. Jones visits medical offices in western Pennsylvania, to educate doctors and their teams about new opioid prescribing guidelines. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

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In this May 4, 2017 photo, Melissa Jones, a nurse educator with Alosa Health, speaks with, from left, Dr. Richard Rosenthal, physician's assistant Emily Braunegg and social worker Jean Easter in the lunch room of a medical office in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Jones visits medical offices in western Pennsylvania to educate doctors about new opioid prescribing guidelines. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

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In this May 4, 2017 photo, Melissa Jones, a nurse educator with Alosa Health, explains educational materials on opioids and managing pain at a doctor's office in Elizabeth, Pa. Jones visits medical offices in western Pennsylvania to educate doctors about new opioid prescribing guidelines. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

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In this May 4, 2017 photo, Melissa Jones, right, a nurse educator with Alosa Health, speaks with Dr. Dorothy Wilhelm in an exam room at a medical office in Monroeville, Pa. Jones visits medical offices in western Pennsylvania to educate doctors about new opioid prescribing guidelines. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

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Erendira Wallenda hangs by her teeth, while suspended from a helicopter above Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Thursday, June 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)

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FILE - In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. Trump promised to make health care more affordable but a government report finds that out-of-pocket costs _ deductibles and copayments _ would average 61 percent higher under the House Republican bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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In this June 8, 2017, file photo, traffic passes by the campus of the Veterans Administration hospital under construction in Aurora, Colo. Glenn Haggstrom, the former top construction official for the Veterans Affairs Department, told The Associated Press he was astounded by the price of the hospital under construction outside Denver and that he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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FILE - In this April 22, 2014 file photo, a man works on a facade during construction of a new Veterans Administration hospital in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo. Glenn Haggstrom, the former top construction official for the Veterans Affairs Department who retired in 2015, told The Associated Press he was astounded by the price of the hospital under construction outside Denver and that he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP, File)

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FILE- In this June 8, 2017, file photo, traffic passes by the campus of the Veterans Administration hospital under construction in Aurora, Colo. Glenn Haggstrom, the former top construction official for the Veterans Affairs Department, told The Associated Press he was astounded by the price of the hospital under construction outside Denver and that he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)