South Korea orders striking doctors to return to work as their walkouts burden hospital...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Wednesday officially ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work immediately, a step that could...
San Francisco wants to offer free drug recovery books at its public libraries
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The most stolen books from San Francisco public libraries' shelves are not the hottest new novels or juicy memoirs, they...
Zimbabwe starts an emergency polio vaccination drive after detecting cases caused by a rare...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe began an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio on Tuesday after health authorities detected...
Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are ‘children’ under state law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility treatments can be considered children under state law.The...
South Korean doctors walk out to protest government policy, causing many surgery cancellations
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean trainee doctors collectively walked off their jobs Tuesday to escalate their protest of a government medical policy,...
‘Soaring’ over hills or ‘playing’ with puppies, study finds seniors enjoy virtual reality
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Retired Army Col. Farrell Patrick taught computer science at West Point during the 1970s and then at two private...
Daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has cancer, urges...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain said Monday she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin...
New York Archdiocese denounces transgender activist’s funeral, holds Mass of Reparation
The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who...
Ukrainian man pleads guilty in cyberattack that temporarily disrupted major Vermont hospital
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) —A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to involvement in two separate malware schemes including a cyberattack at the University of Vermont...
Lyme disease case counts in the US rose by almost 70% in 2022 due...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lyme disease cases in the U.S. jumped nearly 70% in 2022, which health officials say is not due to a...
