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AP News Summary at 7:32 a.m. EDT

AP News Summary at 7:32 a.m. EDT

Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza hospital kills 19, hospital says DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s health ministry says an Israeli airstrike has hit southern Gaza’s main hospital, killing 19 people. The ministry says the victims on the...

AP News Summary at 5:53 a.m. EDT

AP News Summary at 5:53 a.m. EDT

Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza hospital kills 15, hospital says DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s health ministry says an Israeli airstrike has hit southern Gaza’s main hospital, killing 15 people. The ministry says the victims on the...

Identifican en Estados Unidos un caso raro de infección por gusano barrenador del Nuevo Mundo tras viaje desde El Salvador

Identifican en Estados Unidos un caso raro de infección por gusano barrenador del Nuevo Mundo tras viaje desde El Salvador

Por Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Un portavoz del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. informó que se identificó en Maryland un caso raro de gusano barrenador del Nuevo Mundo en un paciente que viajó desde El Salvador. Los Centros para el...

The U.S. confirms its 1st human case of New World screwworm. What is it?

The U.S. confirms its 1st human case of New World screwworm. What is it?

New World screwworm larva, like the one pictured, will hatch and feed on the flesh of living animals, typically cattle. Cases in humans are rare but can be fatal. AP/USDA Agricultural Research Service hide caption toggle caption AP/USDA...

Trump Administration Wants to Banish Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

Trump Administration Wants to Banish Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

The Trump administration announced Monday it was processing Kilmar Abrego Garcia for expulsion to Uganda, threatening to banish him to the United States’ growing network of deportee dumping grounds for the second time. Abrego Garcia, a native of...

The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?

The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?

The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep from South America has put the country's cattle industry on high alert in recent months. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Máximo Torero | We are making progress in the fight against hunger, but not everyone equally

Máximo Torero | We are making progress in the fight against hunger, but not everyone equally

In perspective, good news: world hunger is beginning to decline. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 (SOFI 2025) reported a drop in the proportion of people suffering from hunger, from 8.5 per cent in 2023 to 8.2 per cent in...

Romanian-born health-tech startup Medicai plans rapid growth in the United States

Romanian-born health-tech startup Medicai plans rapid growth in the United States

Medicai, a Romanian provider of software and infrastructure solutions for medical imaging and part of GapMinder Ventures’ investment portfolio, estimates that US revenues will represent 50% of its business by the end of 2025, from 30% currently...

Despotism at the Door

Despotism at the Door

Two years ago yesterday, Donald Trump was booked on racketeering charges at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia. Those charges—which stemmed from Trump’s open attempt to steal the 2020 election in the state—have gone up in smoke after the...

Horror as case of deadly flesh-eating parasite which burrows through human flesh detected

Horror as case of deadly flesh-eating parasite which burrows through human flesh detected

The first case in the United States of a deadly flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been detected. A person in Maryland was treated for the parasite after travelling from Guatemala, which follows an outbreak among animals that began in Central...

NPS Reports Hundreds Of Visitors Potentially Exposed To Deadly Disease At Popular U.S. National Park

NPS Reports Hundreds Of Visitors Potentially Exposed To Deadly Disease At Popular U.S. National Park

National parks can be dangerous places at times. We often forget that these protected areas are characterized by unspoiled nature, which means there are plenty of threats from flora, fauna, natural elements, and more. For instance, in late June,...

OPPORTUNITY AWAITS: Mariah Muhs has a special opportunity in front of her. The Dieterich sophomore is using her fundraising skills to get there.

OPPORTUNITY AWAITS: Mariah Muhs has a special opportunity in front of her. The Dieterich sophomore is using her fundraising skills to get there.

DIETERICH — Mariah Muhs will have to brush up on her linguistic skills over the next year. Spanish is the official language of Costa Rica, the country that the Dieterich sophomore libero will visit next summer when she suits up to play volleyball...

Medical Device Network Excellence Awards 2025: Establishment Labs 

Medical Device Network Excellence Awards 2025: Establishment Labs 

Establishment Labs®, a global medical technology company dedicated to improving women’s health and wellness in breast aesthetics and reconstruction, has won Innovation and Safety awards for its Motiva Flora® SmoothSilk® Breast Tissue Expander in...

ASU instructor shares importance of intercultural communication with health students around the world

ASU instructor shares importance of intercultural communication with health students around the world

Health care providers need not just medical training to understand the body, but intercultural awareness as well, to better understand where a patient is coming from. Susana Valenzuela The latter was the focus of four recent workshops that Susana...

Hundreds turn out for USNS Comfort’s free medical care

Hundreds turn out for USNS Comfort’s free medical care

Carisa Lee Re­porter carisa.Lee@cnc3.co.tt From as ear­ly as 2 am yes­ter­day, peo­ple be­gan lin­ing up out­side the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain for free med­ical ser­vices pro­vid­ed by the US Navy...

Prime Minister Welcomes USNS Comfort’s Medical Mission To T&T

Prime Minister Welcomes USNS Comfort’s Medical Mission To T&T

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is welcoming the healthcare that the USNS Comfort is providing to citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. The Prime Minister visited the USNS Comfort on Thursday to meet the crew of the naval vessel. The hospital...

Best & Worst 2025: Recreation

Best & Worst 2025: Recreation

GENERAL Best Way to Spend Time on the James River Boating/Tubing Areas including the Huguenot Flatwater and Ancarrow’s Landing are popular James River spots for boating and tubing. Explore the river by renting a boat from companies such as...

Meet Our 2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners Defending their Lands Against Extractivism and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge, Rights, and Cultures

Meet Our 2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners Defending their Lands Against Extractivism and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge, Rights, and Cultures

The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners. The Keepers of the Earth Fund is an Indigenous-led...

US medical mission expects 1,500 patients

US medical mission expects 1,500 patients

News Paula Lindo 31 Minutes Ago From left: ICU nurse LTJG Brandy Prochaska, hospital corpsman HM3 Anel Burrow and ICU nurse LTJG Cole White do a demonstartion on with US Embassy public affairs officer Kirsten Michener during a media tour at the...

Deadly cattle screwworm parasite found in US patient. What to know. 

Deadly cattle screwworm parasite found in US patient. What to know. 

A human case of flesh-eating screwworm was detected in the U.S. related to the the latest outbreak of the parasite in Central America, according to officials. The patient had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador, Andrew G....

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