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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Gender gap persists at arguments 04/27/2023 04:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrapped up its arguments Wednesday with a case in which two of the three lawyers who took part are women. But that split was not at all reflective of the court’s term, in which women presented less than a quarter of the arguments. The percentages haven't chang Powerful new obesity drug poised to upend weight loss care 04/27/2023 04:22pm • As a growing number of overweight Americans clamor for Ozempic and Wegovy — drugs touted by celebrities and on TikTok to pare pounds — an even more powerful obesity medicine is poised to upend treatment. Tirzepatide, an Eli Lilly and Co. drug approved to treat type 2 diabetes under the brand nam Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions 04/27/2023 03:56pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Washington and Minnesota won't cooperate with attempts to prosecute out-of-state patients seeking reproductive or gender-affirming procedures and treatment, under new laws signed Thursday by the two states’ Democratic governors. They're the latest liberal states to enact legal saf World powers pull their citizens as violence roils Sudan 04/27/2023 01:48pm • PARIS (AP) — Leila Oulkebous' research for her doctorate from one of France's top universities was going well when the explosions started. Oulkebous had decided to focus her field work on Sudan when the country exploded into violence. The chiefs of the country’s army and its rival Rapid Suppor What to know about prescription drugs promising weight loss 04/27/2023 01:15pm • Obesity is a major and growing problem around the world, but especially in the U.S., where more than 40% of adults and about 20% of children now meet the criteria for what doctors say has become an intractable chronic disease. Rates of the disease have soared in recent decades, spurred by the com In win for UK government, court nixes part of nurses' strike 04/27/2023 01:06pm • LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court ruled Thursday that part of a strike by thousands of nurses planned for next week is illegal, handing a small victory to the government in its bitter dispute with public sector unions. The court said a six-month strike mandate given to the Royal College of Nurs Putting radiation to the test to heal irregular heartbeat 04/27/2023 10:46am • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a bid to better treat people with life-threatening irregular heartbeats who've exhausted other options. While it's highly experimental, surprising early research suggests it may reprogram misfiring heart Rights groups say second Uyghur dies in Thai detention 04/27/2023 06:19am • BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights organizations urged Thailand on Thursday to improve conditions in its immigration detention facilities after a second asylum seeker from China’s Muslim Uyghur minority died in custody within two months. Human Rights Watch called for an end to Thailand’s “inhumane Cannabis commission finale comes as recreational expansion looms on the horizon 04/27/2023 03:24am • A commission that has guided the state through its first wobbly steps into legalized access to marijuana had what is likely its final meeting. Members of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission said their goodbyes Wednesday. The panel, which has changed over the last five years, goes away as the Kansas abortion providers face new rule after veto overriden 04/27/2023 12:41am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health care providers could face criminal charges over accusations about their care of newborns delivered during certain abortion procedures after the Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of their legislation. The new Judge puts Missouri rule limiting transgender care on hold 04/26/2023 11:56pm • CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Wednesday temporarily halted enforcement of a first-of-its-kind rule that restricts access to gender-affirming health care for transgender kids and adults, just hours before it was set to take effect. The rule enstated by Republican Attorney General Andrew B Phils overcome deficit, injury to Walker, beat Mariners 6-5 04/26/2023 11:06pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Castellanos had three hits and three RBIs, Alec Bohm hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies overcame an injury to Taijuan Walker to beat the Seattle Mariners 6-5 on Wednesday night. J.T. Realmuto and Kyle Schwarber also drove in runs for t US sues Tennessee over ban on care for transgender youth 04/26/2023 10:42pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's new law banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, one of the several laws the state's GOP-dominated Statehouse enacted this year targeting LGBTQ+ people. The federal governmen First pill for fecal transplants wins FDA approval 04/26/2023 09:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants. The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously teste Feds wrote $128M in duplicate checks to docs, report finds 04/26/2023 08:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers as much as $128 million in extra payments, according to a new watchdog report out this week. In nearly 300,000 cases, private doctors were paid twice — once by the Vetera