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Psychologist becomes first person in Peru to die by euthanasia after fighting in court for years 04/23/2024 03:09pm • LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian psychologist who had an incurable disease that weakened her muscles and left her bedridden for several years died by euthanasia, her lawyer said Monday, becoming the first person in the country to obtain the right to die with medical assistance. Ana Estrada fought for What's EMTALA, the patient protection law at the center of Supreme Court abortion arguments? 04/23/2024 03:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine whether doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies in states that enact abortion bans. The Justice Department has sued Idaho over its abortion law, which allows a woman to Abortion returns to the spotlight in Italy, 46 years after it was legalized 04/23/2024 02:36pm • ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government scored a victory Tuesday with the Senate approving a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies. The development revives tensions around the issue of abortion in Italy, 46 years afte UnitedHealth says wide swath of patient files may have been taken in Change cyberattack 04/23/2024 11:55am • UnitedHealth says files with personal information that could cover a “substantial portion of people in America” may have been taken in the cyberattack earlier this year on its Change Healthcare business. The company said Monday after markets closed that it sees no signs that doctor charts or ful Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut 04/23/2024 07:34am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her. They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping the ¿Médico hombre o mujer? Estudio sugiere que ser tratado por una doctora se asocia a menos mortalidad 04/23/2024 12:25am • Los pacientes que son atendidos por una doctora tendrían menores tasas de mortalidad y de reingresos en el hospital, lo que beneficiaría en especial a las mujeres, según un estudio que no establece una relación causa-efecto entre ambas variables. La investigación que encabeza la Universidad Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway 04/22/2024 06:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. "This was a planned, coordinated, Jury deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army 04/22/2024 04:34pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. “If you believe they were abused ... tell them to make their claim against the U.S. government,� When red-hot isn't enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level 04/22/2024 04:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer. The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday — Earth Day — presented a new Biden administration tightens rules for obtaining medical records related to abortion 04/22/2024 03:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal, under a new rule that the Biden administration finalized Monday. The regulation, which is intended to protect women who live in states where Children of Flint water crisis make change as young environmental and health activists 04/22/2024 02:18pm • FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach aches, skin rashes and hair loss. Ten years ago in Flint — Apri Children of Flint water crisis make change as young environmental and health activists 04/22/2024 01:08pm • Their childhood memories are vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. But the children of the Flint water crisis — set in motion April 25, 2014, when the city began drawing water fro Takeaways from AP report on how the search for the coronavirus origins turned toxic 04/22/2024 01:05pm • BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found. The AP drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents, l Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous 04/22/2024 01:03pm • BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic a Summer is coming. Where to find thousands of options to keep your kids busy 04/22/2024 10:59am • For parents and their children looking for summer activities to keep them engaged and learning, looking beyond what the school or church offers can open up a world of opportunities, and the D.C.-based National Summer Learning Association has a database of thousands of options. Its 'Discover Summe