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Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Diabetes 05/12/2024 08:00pm • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 38 million Americans (more than 11% of the population) have diabetes, and new cases are being diagnosed every day. If you've recently been diagnosed with diabetes, here are some suggested questions to ask your doctor to help you take Preventing Dementia and Alzheimer's: 8 Habits to Reduce Your Risk 05/12/2024 08:00pm • More than 6 million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease -- and even more are impacted. Alzheimer's, a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain's nerve cells, is an irreversible condition that takes a toll on patients, caregivers, health care providers and loved ones. It is a lea Weeklong event spotlights women's health 05/12/2024 07:54am • Mother's Day kicks off National Women's Health Week. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services leads the effort every May, starting on Mother's Day, to encourage women of all ages to prioritize their health and well-being. The NWHW 2024 messaging "encourages women to engage in healthy p A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope 05/12/2024 02:04am • MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Barbara Nabulo was one of three girls in her family. But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one and a half daughters. The half was the ailing Nabulo, who at age 12 grasped her mother’s meaning. "I hated myself so much,” Nabulo For a second time, Sen. Bob Menendez faces a corruption trial. This time, it involves gold bars 05/12/2024 12:33am • NEW YORK (AP) — For the second time in a decade, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces a corruption trial Monday with his political career and freedom on the line in a criminal case that already has forced him out of one of the most powerful posts in Congress. The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat and his wi Small pro-Palestinian protests held Saturday as college commencements are held 05/11/2024 11:11pm • Small pro-Palestinian protests popped up sporadically Saturday as colleges and universities from North Carolina to California held commencement ceremonies, including dozens of graduating students at Virginia Commonwealth University who walked out on an address by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. While some of t First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later 05/11/2024 09:17pm • BOSTON (AP) — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday. Richard “Rick” Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Ma Jill Biden tells Arizona college graduates to tune out people who tell them what they 'can't' do 05/11/2024 05:02pm • Jill Biden on Saturday told Arizona community college graduates to tune out the people who like to tell them what they can't do. The first lady shared with graduates of Mesa Community College how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn't college material and shouldn't waste her time go Sudan’s military fends off an attack by paramilitary forces on a major Darfur city 05/11/2024 04:01pm • CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military and allied armed groups staved off an attack by a paramilitary group and Arab militias on a major city in the western region of Darfur, officials and residents said Saturday. The attack Friday was the latest by the Arab-dominated Rapid Support Forces against el-Fash 'Where's Ronald Greene's justice?': 5 years on, feds still silent on Black motorist's deadly arrest 05/10/2024 10:30pm • FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline 05/10/2024 09:50pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records. An Ascension spokesperson said it detected “unusu Woman to celebrate first Mother's Day at home since emerging from 5-year coma 05/10/2024 09:02pm • ▶ Watch Video: Mom refuses to give up on daughter put on life support after car crash Dowagiac, Michigan — For Peggy Means, every Mother's Day had been just another day without her daughter, Jennifer Flewellen, who was critically injured in a 2017 car crash at the age 35. Flewelle They say you can cure a broken heart, but an angry heart could be more dangerous for your health 05/10/2024 08:10pm • Stress, agitation and anger could lead to heart problems — that's something we've always known. But a new study from the American Heart Association gives us fresh insight into why that is, and doctors say the findings also show how these effects could be more widespread, even in healthy people. James Simons, mathematician, philanthropist and hedge fund founder, has died 05/10/2024 07:06pm • James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation's biggest philanthropists, has died at age 86. The charitable foundation that Simons co-founded with his wife, Marilyn, announced that Simons died Friday in N Djokovic says he's 'fine' after being hit on the head by a water bottle 05/10/2024 06:57pm • ROME (AP) — Novak Djokovic said he was “fine” after accidentally getting knocked on the head by a water bottle after a win at the Italian Open on Friday. A man was leaning over the railing to hand Djokovic a notebook for a signature and an aluminum-type water bottle fell out of his backpack an