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University of Utah chairman of the board David Burton speaks with the media following a board of trustees closed executive session meeting over the recent firing of Dr. Mary Beckerle, the CEO and director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Beckerle was fired last week was reinstated Tuesday, April 25, 2017, following widespread outrage over the ousting. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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University of Utah President David Pershing speaks with the media following a board of trustees closed executive session meeting over the recent firing of Dr. Mary Beckerle, the CEO and director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Beckerle was fired last week was reinstated Tuesday, April 25, 2017, following widespread outrage over the ousting. Pershing said in a statement that Beckerle would resume her role as the CEO and director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, saying it’s time “to return to our mission of serving our students, caring for our patients and pursuing critical research.” (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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This undated photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory. On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, New York state health officials provided new details about a continuing outbreak of the infection. The count is 44 now, up from a half dozen last fall. The fungus is a harmful form of yeast that was first seen in a patient in 2009, in Japan. Scientists say it can be hard to identify with standard lab tests, and more cases are being reported as doctors are looking harder for it. (Shawn Lockhart/CDC via AP)
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FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus, in Silver Spring, Md. The FDA is warning consumers to avoid 65 bogus products hawked on the internet with false claims that they can cure, treat or prevent cancer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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This 2009 photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Health shows a semi-slug on a nickel on Hawaii's Big Island. A rising number of rat lungworm cases in Hawaii could be blamed on a recent influx on Maui of a semi-slug that can carry the disease, according to the state health department. (Marlena Dixo/Hawaii Department of Health via AP)
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This 2009 photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Health shows a semi-slug, left, next to a Cuban slug, right, on Hawaii's Big Island. A rising number of rat lungworm cases in Hawaii could be blamed on a recent influx on Maui of a semi-slug that can carry the disease, according to the state health department. (Marlena Dixon/Hawaii Department of Health via AP)
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File - In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Hawaii Health Director Virginia Pressler, left, and Hawaii Tourism Authority CEO George Szigeti, right, talk to members of the media about new cases of rat lungworm disease in Honolulu. A California couple on their honeymoon and two people who drank a homemade beverage are among the rising number of victims in Hawaii falling ill with a potentially deadly brain parasite. After the newlyweds' plight with rat lungworm disease recently got attention online, the couple and some experts accused Hawaii of failing to adequately warn tourists and residents of the danger. Tourism officials are assuring visitors that the disease is rare and there's no need to cancel vacation plans. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz, File)
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In this photo provided by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, fetal physiologist Marcus G. Davey of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who helped design the artificial womb system. He is shown near giant tanks holding a liquid designed to simulate amniotic fluid. Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies, and animal testing suggests the first-of-its-kind watery incubation so closely mimics mom that it just might work. (Ed Cunicelli/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Alan Flake a fetal surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who is leading the research to develop a fluid-filled incubation system that mimics a mother’s womb, to help extremely premature infants. Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies, and animal testing suggests the first-of-its-kind watery incubation so closely mimics mom that it just might work. (Ed Cunicelli/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia via AP)
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In this drawing provided by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an illustration of a fluid-filled incubation system that mimics a mother’s womb, in hopes of one day improving survival of extremely premature babies. In animal testing, fetal lambs grew for up to four weeks inside a bag filled with a substitute for amniotic fluid, while the heart pumped blood into a machine attached to the umbilical cord that supplied oxygen like a placenta normally would. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia via AP)
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In this March 21, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, followed by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, leaves Capitol Hill Washington after rallying support for the Republican health care overhaul with GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Minnesota Twins catcher Chris Gimenez (38) and relief pitcher Brandon Kintzler (27) celebrate after the final out of the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, Monday April 24, 2017. The Twins won 3-2. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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The vast majority of projects examined by the group were funded by the National Institutes of Health, but the National Science Foundation and Defense and Veterans Affairs departments were also listed as the source of some of the money, which came to nearly $250 million in 2016 among the Ivy League. Harvard accounted for some $177 million of that. (Associated Press file photo)
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People reach out for free lettuce at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 24, 2017. Farmers gave away fruits and vegetables as a form of protest, demanding land rights and rural development. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Young Republicans are suing the University of of California at Berkeley after the campus blocked Ann Coulter's upcoming appearance. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite)
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This cover image released by Blue Note Records shows "Parking Lot Symphony," the latest release by Trombone Shorty. (Blue Note Records via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009, file photo, a mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya. The World Health Organization says three African countries have been chosen to test the world's first malaria vaccine. Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will begin piloting the injectable vaccine next year with young children. WHO said Monday, April 24, 2017, that the vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives if used with existing measures. The challenge is whether impoverished countries can deliver the required four doses of the vaccine for each child. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009, file photo, a mother holds her baby receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya. The World Health Organization says three African countries have been chosen to test the world's first malaria vaccine. Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will begin piloting the injectable vaccine next year with young children. WHO said Monday, April 24, 2017, that the vaccine has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives if used with existing measures. The challenge is whether impoverished countries can deliver the required four doses of the vaccine for each child. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)
