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Scherzer figures out what has kept him off the mound. He wants to pitch again this year 08/31/2024 06:28pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Max Scherzer feels confident that he has figured out what was causing a nerve issue that has kept him from pitching for a month, and the three-time Cy Young Award winner is now ready to rehab to get back on the mound for the Texas Rangers. Scherzer said Saturday that a cha Some parents might miss signs their child has long COVID 08/31/2024 05:04pm • COVID isn't behind us — not yet, at least. And there are millions of kids in the U.S. suffering the effects of what's called long COVID, according to medical journal Pediatrics. The World Health Organization defines long COVID, roughly, as having symptoms three months or more after initial infe Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza a day before fighting is expected to pause 08/31/2024 05:02pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel's military offensives. Meanwhile, Israel's military 9 days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses. The plan to vaccinate Gaza's young against polio 08/31/2024 02:48pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating war that has destroyed the territory's healthcare system. The campaign comes after the first polio Jordan Spieth has wrist surgery and is eager to hit the reset button on his career 08/31/2024 01:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Jordan Spieth was in Colorado last week, just like he expected, only he wasn't there for the FedEx Cup playoffs. He had surgery on his left wrist that he believes will eliminate issues that might have bothered him longer than just the last 15 months. Spieth had surgery on Aug. 21 in With men at the front lines, women watch over Ukraine's night sky for Russian drones 08/31/2024 11:38am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When the air raid siren bellows in the dead of night, the women in arms rush to duty. Barely two months since joining the mobile air-defense unit, 27-year-old Angelina has perfected the drill to a tee: Combat gear fitted, anti-aircraft machine gun in place, she cruised behind Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek 08/31/2024 09:33am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, is trying to address a worrisome labor shortage by coaxing more people and companies to adopt four-day workweeks. The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week For Tara and Hunter, it's one gold medal down, two more at stake as Paralympics get underway 08/31/2024 06:00am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The title of the video is “What Happens After You Win The Olympics.” It is nearly 16 minutes of solid-gold footage from a handheld camera showing long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall’s whirlwind day after she became an Olympic champion. It includes a trip to the Olympi Three blood biomarkers may give women a picture of their heart disease risk decades in advance, study shows 08/31/2024 03:26am • (CNN) — Measuring the levels of three biomarkers in blood in midlife may give women a clearer picture of their risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes decades earlier than current risk calculators do, a new study suggests.When it comes to the worries that women have Vietnamese helping victims of Agent Orange used by US troops in Vietnam War among Magsaysay winners 08/31/2024 02:03am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards — regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prizes. T Israel-Hamas war latest: The Israeli military strikes Jenin on Day 3 of its West Bank raid 08/30/2024 09:56pm • The Israeli military struck the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, the third day of heavy fighting in the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military said it struck Palestinian militants and killed a senior Hamas commander in the city. Such airstrikes, while common over the months-long Israel-Hamas Doctor charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death appears in court after plea deal 08/30/2024 06:25pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of two doctors charged in connection with Matthew Perry's death made his first appearance in a federal court in Los Angeles on Friday after reaching a deal to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors. Dr. Mark Chavez, 54, of San Diego, stood in court with his lawyer and Trump wants to make the GOP a 'leader' on IVF. Republicans' actions make that a tough sell 08/30/2024 05:12pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's vow to promote in vitro fertilization by forcing health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the treatments is at odds with the actions of much of his own party. Yet his surprising announcement Thursday reveals the f A Palestinian TikTok star who shared details of Gaza life under siege is killed by Israeli airstrike 08/30/2024 04:41pm • CAIRO (AP) — It was another day of war in Gaza, another day of what 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy called his “Tent Life." As he often did in videos documenting life's mundane absurdities in the enclave, Halimy on Monday walked to his local internet cafe — rather, a tent with How DC used less than a quarter-million dollars to clear $42M of debt for residents 08/30/2024 12:06pm • If you could spend $1 to help someone else pay off almost $200 of medical debt, would you? If you pay taxes in D.C., you've done just that. The District is using a $225,000 surplus from last year’s budget to buy out around $42 million in medical debt being held by some of the city's lowest inco