Search

Hamlin says blow to chest caused cardiac arrest on field 04/18/2023 05:46pm • Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin says his doctors have concluded that a hit to the chest caused his heart to stop after a tackle during a game in Cincinnati in early January. The rare condition — called commotio cordis — occurs when a severe blow to the chest causes the heart to quiver and sto Kipchoge says leg injury foiled Boston Marathon attempt 04/18/2023 05:15pm • BOSTON (AP) — The rain might be gone if Eliud Kipchoge returns for another try at the Boston Marathon, as he said Tuesday he intends to do. The field might be thinner. The wind might be at his back. But Heartbreak Hill will still be there. The historic route from Hopkinton to Boston’s Back Bay i Fighting rages in Sudan hours after cease-fire was to begin 04/18/2023 05:10pm • KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Fighting raged in Sudan on Tuesday hours after an internationally brokered truce was supposed to have come into effect, as forces loyal to dueling generals battled for key locations in the capital and accused each other of violating the cease-fire. The humanitarian truce cam Lawsuit: Man's jail death caused by inadequate medical care 04/18/2023 02:34pm • ATLANTA (AP) — The family of a man who died in a jail in Atlanta's suburbs said his death could have been prevented if he had received proper medical attention for an ulcer that caused internal bleeding. Deion Strayhon's family filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against NaphCare Inc., a private c Abortion foes urge justices to allow limits on abortion drug 04/18/2023 02:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for anti-abortion doctors on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to allow restrictions to take effect on a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, while a lawsuit continues. The justices are weighing a request from the Biden administration and Ne Judge rules University of Michigan grad strike unfair 04/18/2023 12:52pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a graduate student instructor strike at the University of Michigan amounts to an unfair labor practice. David Peltz, an administrative law judge for the Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules, issued the decision Friday, the Detroit New WTOP's Neal Augenstein: Back to work, feeling great after robot-assisted lung cancer surgery 04/18/2023 09:57am • It's hard for me to believe that on Friday, I had the upper lobe of my cancerous left lung removed, went home the next day, and am back to work, Tuesday. It shows what medical device and biopharmaceutical innovation can do for stage 4 cancer patients, in the hands of a wonderful treatment team. O Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cables 04/18/2023 07:59am • NANGAN, Taiwan (AP) — In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn't provide them with the internet. Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor's Sudan's generals battle for 3rd day; death toll soars to 185 04/18/2023 12:31am • KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — As explosions and gunfire thundered outside, Sudanese in the capital Khartoum and other cities huddled in their homes for a third day Monday, while the army and a powerful rival force battled in the streets for control of the country. At least 185 people have been killed an Sudan hospitals struggle with casualties, damage in fighting 04/17/2023 09:12pm • CAIRO (AP) — At the Khartoum Teaching Hospital, people wounded during street battles flowed into the wards. Supplies were running low, with doctors, nurses, patients and their relatives trapped inside for days as the Sudanese capital turned into a war zone. Then early Monday, one of the wards was GOP leader McConnell returns to Senate after head injury 04/17/2023 07:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is back at work in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and extended treatment for a concussion. The longtime Kentucky senator, 81, has been recovering at home since he was released from a Lawsuit seeking to revoke West Virginia abortion ban dropped 04/17/2023 06:42pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An abortion provider on Monday dropped a two-month-old federal lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total ban. The Women's Health Center of West Virginia said in a court filing that its primary physician determined he will be unable to resume providing aborti Federal judge halts Colorado ban on 'abortion pill reversal' 04/17/2023 06:15pm • DENVER (AP) — A judge has temporarily halted enforcement of a Colorado ban on what experts consider unproven treatments to reverse medical abortions at a religious clinic that alleged in a lawsuit that the newly signed law violated its Constitutional rights. Judge Daniel Domenico, who noted that C Colorectal cancer is an ailment we don’t usually associate with younger people — but maybe we should 04/17/2023 05:25pm • Colorectal cancer is an ailment that's not typically associated with younger people. “I was 25 and I started experiencing symptoms,” said Vannora Hawkins, of Alexandria, Virginia. “It started out with abdominal pain. Then I started having vomiting and diarrhea. Then I started to have blood A name recognized by many helps offer cancer screening for everyone 04/17/2023 04:42pm • The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention. (WTOP/John Domen) In the fashion world, Ralph Lauren is a world-class brand. A new cancer treatment center bearing his name in D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood hopes to build off that brand recognition, but with fewer barriers. The Ralph Lauren Cent