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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2015 file photo, an elderly couple walks down a hall in Easton, Pa. It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity, mostly walking, helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Walking as Medicine: Benefit Seen in Seniors

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterSeptember 27, 2016

FILE - In this June 12, 2016 file photo, emergency personnel wait with stretchers at the emergency entrance to Orlando Regional Medical Center hospital for the arrival of patients from the scene of a fatal shooting at Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Up to 1 in 5 deaths from car crashes, gunshots or other injuries might be prevented with better, quicker trauma care that doesn't depend so much on where you live, according to government advisers _ advice that takes on new urgency amid the increasing threat of mass casualties like the massacre in Orlando. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Study: Up to 1 in 5 Trauma Deaths Could Be Prevented

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterJune 18, 2016

In this photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ), a feeding female Anopheles stephensi mosquito crouching forward and downward on her forelegs on a human skin surface, in the process of obtaining its blood meal through its sharp, needle-like labrum, which it had inserted into its human host. A powerful new technology holds the promise of rapidly altering genes to make malaria-proof mosquitoes, eliminate their Zika-carrying cousins or wipe out an invasive species, but advisers to the government say these so-called "gene drives" aren't ready to let loose in the wild just yet. (James Gathany/CDC via AP)

A Future of Mosquitoes Without Malaria?

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterJune 9, 2016

FILE - In this May 8, 2014 file photo, an overweight is seen in New York. International diabetes organizations are calling for weight-loss surgery to become a more routine treatment option for diabetes, even for some patients who are only mildly obese. Obesity and Type 2 diabetes are a deadly pair, and numerous studies show stomach-shrinking operations can dramatically improve diabetes. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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Guidelines: Diabetics Should Consider Surgery

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterMay 24, 2016

Dr. Dicken Ko, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's urology program, shakes hands with surgical team members after a news conference at the hospital, Monday, May 16, 2016, in Boston to announce the first penis transplant in the United States. Cancer patient Thomas Manning, of Halifax, Mass., received a transplanted penis in a 15-hour procedure last week. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

U.S. Man Receives Penis Transplant

by Philip Marcelo Associated Press, and Lauran Neergaard Associated PressMay 17, 2016

Dr. Robot Stitches Tissue By Itself

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterMay 4, 2016

FILE - In this April 29, 2012 file photo, a woman diagnosed with diabetes gives herself an injection of insulin at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce, Calif. Transplants of insulin-producing pancreas cells are a long hoped-for treatment for diabetes, and a new study shows they can protect the most seriously ill patients from a life-threatening complication, an important step toward U.S. approval. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Cell Transplants Show Promise to Treat Diabetes

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterApril 19, 2016

Doctor Dorry Segev answers questions about the first ever HIV-positive liver transplant in the world during a news conference at Johns Hopkins hospital, March 30, 2016 in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University announced Wednesday that both recipients are recovering well after one received a kidney and the other a liver from a deceased donor — organs that ordinarily would have been thrown away because of the HIV infection. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

U.S. HIV Patient Receives Transplant

by Lauran Neergaard AP Medical WriterMarch 31, 2016