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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,â 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 Japan's anti-monopoly body orders Google to fix ad search limits affecting Yahoo 04/22/2024 09:00am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its recent study of Google’s practices showed it was undermining fair competition in Ethiopian distance runner and Olympic finalist Zerfe Wondemagegn banned 5 years for doping 04/22/2024 06:04am • MONACO (AP) — A runner from Ethiopia who reached the 3,000-meter steeplechase final at the Tokyo Olympics, and narrowly missed the world championship podium last year, has been banned for five years after testing positive for two banned substances. Zerfe Wondemagegn admitted breaking anti-doping r 'DWTS' champ Derek Hough returns to DC area, invites doctor after wife's medical emergency during last visit 04/22/2024 04:33am • In December, Derek Hough joined WTOP before he and his wife Hayley Erbert performed at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. At the end of the show, his wife became disoriented and was taken to the hospital for an emergency craniotomy, to treat a cranial hematoma that resulted from a b What You Should Know About the RSV Vaccines 04/21/2024 08:00pm • When it comes to seasonal viruses, you're probably concerned about the flu and COVID. On the other hand, the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV for short, may not be on your radar. But it should be. Here's what you need to know about RSV and the vaccines. What Is RSV?RSV is a common respiratory vir