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Mexico's president admits he briefly fainted due to COVID-19 04/26/2023 08:29pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president acknowledged Wednesday he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, something his spokesman had previously denied. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his doctors had been concerned enough to administer a liter Ex-UCLA gynecologist sentenced to 11 years in sex abuse case 04/26/2023 08:21pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients, in a criminal trial that came after the university system made nearly $700 million in lawsuit payouts connected to the case. Dr. How Olympic Track Legend Michael Johnson Recovered From a Stroke 04/26/2023 08:00pm • Michael Johnson, one of the greatest sprinters of all time, won four Olympic gold medals, eight World Championships and held world and Olympic records. Once the fastest person ever to run 200 meters, he covered the distance in 19.32 seconds in Atlanta in 1996. He dedicated his life to a healthy life What You Can Do With a Public Health Degree 04/26/2023 08:00pm • Students looking to prevent or mitigate another global pandemic or learn about the social factors that affect patient outcomes could benefit from a degree in public health. A person entering the field of public health typically will have some involvement with government. "It is usually going to be a Turkish president cancels campaign stops over health issue 04/26/2023 06:18pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he was canceling a day of election campaigning on Wednesday to rest at home, a day after he was forced to briefly interrupt a television interview over a stomach complaint. Erdogan was being interviewed live by Turkey’s Ulke Guardians' Bibee strikes out 8 vs Rockies, wins MLB debut 04/26/2023 05:51pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Tanner Bibee struck out eight and allowed one run over 5 2/3 innings in his major league debut and the Cleveland Guardians defeated the Colorado Rockies 4-1 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep. Bibee, a 24-year-old right-hander, was called up from Triple-A Columbus before the Sudanese crowd at borders to escape amid shaky truce 04/26/2023 04:27pm • CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese families were massing Wednesday at a border crossing with Egypt and at a port city on the Red Sea, desperately trying to escape their country's violence and sometimes waiting for days with little food or shelter, witnesses said. In the capital, Khartoum, the intensity of fig Amid layoffs, Disney touts upcoming film slate at CinemaCon 04/26/2023 03:24pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Amid a week of massive layoffs at Disney, the leadership team of its film arm gathered in Las Vegas on Wednesday to tout its successes and upcoming slate of films to a crowd of theater owners and exhibitors. The Walt Disney Company presentation, with exclusive new footage from fi Review: 'Polite Society' is a punk blast of pure delight 04/26/2023 01:57pm • Coming-of-age comedies about young protagonists with esoteric dreams are not exactly a rarity. What is less common, though, are films as spirited and charming as Nida Manzoor's “Polite Society,” a roundhouse kick of a movie about two British-Pakistani sisters that marries Jane Austen with kung-f Italy's Berlusconi recovering in 'optimal, convincing' way 04/26/2023 01:44pm • ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has leukemia, is now stable after three weeks in the hospital being treated for a lung infection, his doctors reported Wednesday. Berlusconi, who was initially admitted to the intensive care unit of Milan’s San Raffaele clinic, has respon Ex-Harvard prof sentenced, fined for lying about China ties 04/26/2023 12:51pm • BOSTON (AP) — A former Harvard University professor convicted of lying to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese-run science recruitment program and failing to pay taxes on payments from a Chinese university was sentenced Wednesday to supervised release and ordered to pay more than $83, Cosmetic to critical: Blue states help trans health coverage 04/26/2023 11:14am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For most of her life in New Mexico, Christina Wood felt like she had to hide her identity as a transgender woman. So six years ago she moved to Oregon, where she had readier access to the gender-affirming health care she needed to live as her authentic self. Once there, Wood, University of Maryland dominates US ranking of best nursing schools 04/26/2023 08:23am • The University of Maryland's nursing school continues to be rated as one of the top in the nation, the school announced Tuesday. UMD's Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program and its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program tied at No. 7 among public schools of nursing in U.S. News and World R Sudanese abroad try to extend a lifeline and aid back home 04/26/2023 02:52am • LONDON (AP) — With her homeland now a conflict zone, rest does not come easily for Dr. Sara Abdelgalil. She is anxious about family still in Sudan that she can't reach. Her sleepless mother paces the floor above her with worry. And her phone buzzes at all hours with text messages seeking medical a Today in History: April 26, Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster 04/26/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2023. There are 249 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 26, 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere. (Doz