If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.

Many middle-income countries are left out of the deal, widening a gulf in access to critical medicines.

The S.E.C. alleged shortcomings in research said to support the drug, and its developer agreed to a $40 million settlement. Some experts wonder why clinical trials have not been stopped.

Death rates are declining among U.S. women with breast cancer. But the disease is turning up more often in women under age 50.

The state said that despite a doctor’s recommendation and state law, a Catholic hospital declined to provide an abortion because fetal heart tones were present.

The death, which was reported on Friday, is only the fifth fatal human rabies case in Minnesota since 1975, health officials said.