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Roy Calne, a surgeon who led Europe's first liver transplant, has died aged 93 01/07/2024 11:47am • LONDON (AP) — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93. Calne’s family said he died late Saturday in Cambridge, England, where he was professor emeritus of surgery at Cambridge University. Born in 1930, Calne trai DC neighbors celebrate 100th birthday of World War II vet, civil rights pioneer 01/07/2024 04:34am • The lobby of a D.C. apartment building was decorated with balloons and streamers, tables were laden with party food and Champagne corks popped, as guests toasted Thompkins Hallman who was born on Jan. 2, 1924. As his Lanier neighbors inside the seven-story apartment building near Adams Morgan Cumbersome process and 'arbitrary' Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say 01/06/2024 03:43pm • CAIRO (AP) — At Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, lines of hundreds of trucks carrying aid wait for weeks to enter Gaza, and a warehouse is full of goods rejected by Israeli inspectors, everything from water testing equipment to medical kits for delivering babies, two U.S. senators said Saturday af Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor 01/06/2024 12:49pm • Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of the Black church in America. Based in Harlem, it became a famous megachurch with the political rise of the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. perhaps the most influential of the many men w Mario Zagallo, the World Cup winning player and coach for Brazil, dies at age 92 01/06/2024 09:49am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Mario Zagallo, who won two World Cups as a player, one as a coach and another as an assistant coach for Brazil, has died. He was 92. The first person to win the World Cup both as a player and a manager, Zagallo is for many Brazilian soccer fans synonymous with patriotism, gri US fugitive accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is extradited to Utah from Scotland 01/05/2024 06:06pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An elusive U.S. fugitive accused of faking his own death and traveling the globe to avoid rape charges has been extradited to Utah from Scotland, the Utah County prosecutor’s office said Friday. The man known in the U.S. as Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahv Flu and COVID infections got worse over the holidays, with more misery expected, CDC says 01/05/2024 05:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The flu season in the U.S. is getting worse but it's too soon to tell how much holiday gatherings contributed to a likely spike in illnesses. New government data posted Friday for last week — the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's — show 38 states with high or very h Cher is denied an immediate conservatorship over son's money, but the issue isn't done 01/05/2024 03:53pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Friday declined to immediately put Cher's son into the legal conservatorship that she is seeking and he is opposing, but the court will take up the issue again within weeks. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jessica A. Uzcategui ruled that Cher's attorneys had not giv The teacher shot by a 6-year-old still worries, a year later, about the other students in the room 01/05/2024 03:47pm • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A year after she was shot by her 6-year-old student in a Virginia classroom, former teacher Abby Zwerner said she still worries about the other children who saw it happen, and wonders how they're faring. Wounded by a bullet that struck her hand and chest and punctured a lu Data Doctors: Tips for buying used smartphones 01/05/2024 03:34pm • Q: I'm looking to buy a lower-cost smartphone. What are the differences between refurbished and used smartphones? A: The yearly improvement in smartphone technology leads many people to get rid of perfectly good smartphones in pursuit of owning the "latest and greatest" technology. This trend Alexandria City Public Schools mourns the death of its longest-serving teacher in history 01/05/2024 03:02pm • The longest-serving teacher in the history of Alexandria City Public Schools, remembered by the school system as a "historic and legendary" educator, died Thursday. Louis Kokonis started his career in 1959 at Francis C. Hammond Middle School before moving on to teach math at Alexandria City High Sudan paramilitary leader says he's committed to cease-fire, but no progress on proposed peace talks 01/04/2024 10:35pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Sudanese paramilitary leader Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo said Thursday he was committed to a cease-fire to end the devastating war that has wrecked his country, even as fighting continues and there has been no progress on proposed peace talks between Dagalo and Sudan Understanding Sundowning: Symptoms, Causes and Coping Strategies 01/04/2024 07:00pm • For many of our elderly loved ones, late afternoons and evenings are filled with panic, confusion and behavioral changes. It's called sundowning. A broad term for behavioral disturbances that commonly peak later in the day -- though they can occur at other times -- sundowning can be especially unset Crib videos offer clue to mysterious child deaths, showing seizures sometimes play a role 01/04/2024 06:41pm • The last bedtime of 17-month-old Hayden Fell’s life was heartbreakingly normal. Crib video shows the toddler in pajamas playing happily as his parents and sister sang “Wheels on the Bus” with his twin brother. The next morning, Hayden’s dad couldn’t wake him. The tot had become one of seve Eli Lilly starts website to connect patients with new obesity treatment, Zepbound, other drugs 01/04/2024 05:49pm • Eli Lilly has launched a unique website to connect U.S. patients seeking obesity treatment to doctors, dieticians and its new weight-loss drug, Zepbound. The drugmaker said Thursday it will use the site, called LillyDirect, to pair visitors with third-party mail-order pharmacies for prescriptions an