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Judges limit North Carolina child support law requirement in IVF case involving same-sex couple 03/19/2024 07:19pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Someone acting as a child's parent can't be ordered to pay child support in North Carolina unless the person is an actual parent or has formally agreed to provide such compensation, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in a case involving an unmarried same-sex couple. A d Michigan will become the last US state to decriminalize surrogacy contracts 03/19/2024 06:08pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Rachael Lang and her husband share the same last name as their biological daughter, but are not listed on her birth certificate. Instead, it bears the name of a surrogate who carried their daughter due to Lang’s past cancer diagnosis. Michigan’s ban on paid surrogacy cont Arizona lawmaker says she announced plans to get an abortion to underscore out-of-touch laws 03/19/2024 05:36pm • PHOENIX (AP) — A pregnant Arizona lawmaker who revealed in a speech at the state Senate that she was planning to get an abortion says she wanted to share with her colleagues and the public the practical effects of abortion restrictions passed over the years. Democratic Sen. Eva Burch of Mesa told Byron Janis, renowned American classical pianist who overcame debilitating arthritis, dies at 95 03/19/2024 01:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis that nearly robbed him of his playing abilities, has died. He was 95. Janis passed away Thursday evening at a hospital in New Yo She stood between a dangerous drug and a generation of American babies 03/19/2024 05:15am • As part of Women’s History Month, WTOP explores the story of one Food and Drug Administration medical officer who persisted in asking questions and prevented more mothers from taking a drug that could harm their babies. When she asked why she did not have any hands, the answer Leslie Mink, UnitedHealth says it has made progress on recovering from a massive cyberattack 03/19/2024 02:05am • UnitedHealth is testing the last major system it must restore from last month’s Change Healthcare cyberattack, but it has no date yet for finishing the recovery. The health care giant said Monday that it is testing software for submitting medical claims. It already has largely restored systems for LeBron scores 25, D'Angelo Russell ties Lakers 3-pointers record in LA's 136-105 win over Hawks 03/19/2024 01:38am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James had 25 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds, and D'Angelo Russell scored 27 points while tying the Lakers' single-season record for 3-pointers in a 136-105 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. Russell's six 3-pointers against the Hawks gave him 183 this South Korea will suspend licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punishment for doctors' walkouts 03/18/2024 11:23pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean authorities will suspend the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations, one of the doctors said Monday. The impending suspensions are the Editorial Roundup: United States 03/18/2024 03:15pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 14 The Washington Post on a step toward lower, more transparent Medicare payments As if to prove that every rule has an exception, the usually dysfunctional Republican-majority House of Representatives has at least one sensible p Chile international Altamirano stable and feeling OK after collapsing during game 03/18/2024 11:26am • BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Chile international Javier Altamirano was in stable condition and doing well after collapsing during a game for Estudiantes de la Plata, the club's doctor said. The 24-year-old midfielder fell during his team's 0-0 draw Sunday night with Boca Juniors in an Argentinian league ma Relieve joint pain with nerve ablation or artery embolization 03/18/2024 10:07am • This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In 2022, the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging found that 70% of older adults experienced joint pain. Nerve pain around the joint could be to blame if stabbing, burning, or joint pain hinders you from doing t IVF 'not the only option' for couples struggling to start families 03/18/2024 05:00am • For more than eight years, Sarah Shafer tried to get pregnant. She spent thousands of dollars and priceless time undergoing nearly 20 intrauterine insemination (IUI) attempts. When nothing worked, Shafer switched fertility specialists. And her new doctor gave her some insight. “Our doctor lo What Does Long-Term Care Insurance Cover? 03/17/2024 08:00pm • For Laurie Craigen, the realities of senior medical costs hit hard when her grandmother needed hospice care. "It was a stressful time for the family because we were trying to figure out how to keep her comfortable and at home without running out of funds," recalls Craigen, an associate professor in State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs 03/17/2024 11:33am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massach 'There's no agenda here': A look at the judge who is overseeing Trump's hush money trial 03/17/2024 10:21am • NEW YORK (AP) — Judge Juan M. Merchan looked across his high-ceilinged courtroom, facing the defendant in a complicated case. Not the one everyone knows about. Yes, Merchan could become the first judge ever to oversee a former U.S. president's criminal trial: Donald Trump's hush money case. But o