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Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities

Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent encampments have risen along the American River and highway overpasses have become havens for homeless people, whose numbers have jumped a staggering nearly 70% over two years.
Heart infection could be cause of death of Polish, US hero

Heart infection could be cause of death of Polish, US hero

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Medical and genetics experts in Poland say that a heart infection caused by a common skin bacteria could have caused the 1817 death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish and U.S. military leader and national hero.
Babies in Tigray dying at 4 times pre-war levels, study says

Babies in Tigray dying at 4 times pre-war levels, study says

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of

Gambia urgently recalls syrups blamed for 66 child deaths

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambia has launched an urgent door-to-door campaign to remove cough and cold syrups blamed for the deaths of more than 60 children from kidney injury in the tiny West African country.
CDC, WHO, Uganda to host regional meeting as Ebola spreads

CDC, WHO, Uganda to host regional meeting as Ebola spreads

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Uganda next week will host a ministerial meeting on the outbreak of the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus which has no proven vaccine and has caused alarm in the East Afri
Your Good Health: A rundown of the spread, effects of COVID, monkeypox, HIV

Your Good Health: A rundown of the spread, effects of COVID, monkeypox, HIV

These are all viruses, but they are all transmitted differently and have very different effects on the body.
Addictions docs, Ontario govt. reach virtual care deal after outcry from physicians

Addictions docs, Ontario govt. reach virtual care deal after outcry from physicians

Ontario's doctors have reached a deal with the province over how much addictions physicians will be paid for virtual care after they raised an outcry over previously planned changes they said would have put 30,000 patients at risk of losing lifesavin
Loretta Lynn's songs resonate anew amid abortion debate

Loretta Lynn's songs resonate anew amid abortion debate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Grammy-winning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90, lived through — and sang about — decades of advancements for women's social movements, achievements now endangered.
China's vast Xinjiang hit with COVID-19 travel restrictions

China's vast Xinjiang hit with COVID-19 travel restrictions

BEIJING (AP) — The sprawling Xinjiang region in western China has been hit with sweeping COVID-19 travel restrictions as the government ratchets up control measures across the country ahead of a key Communist Party congress later this month.
Climate Changed: Fiona demonstrated wild hurricane future, and need to adapt

Climate Changed: Fiona demonstrated wild hurricane future, and need to adapt

HALIFAX — As she stood near the remnants of flattened homes in Port aux Basques, N.L., Denise Anderson said the thought of continuing to live next to the ocean is hard after a deadly storm foreshadowed the violence of weather to come.