Health

NEW YORK — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, protecting the capitals of each nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at main airports, suspending Major League Baseball video games and prompting folks to fish out pandemic-era face masks. ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — At Cleveland’s Urban Kutz Barbershop, prospects can flip by way of magazines as they wait, or assist themselves to drug screening exams not noted in a field on a desk with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.” ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis awoke Thursday after a very good first night time within the hospital following a three-hour operation to take away intestinal scar tissue and restore a hernia in his belly wall, issues that developed following earlier surgical procedures. ...

ROME — Pope Francis underwent surgical procedure Wednesday to restore a hernia in his stomach wall, the most recent illness to befall the 86-year-old pontiff who had a part of his colon eliminated two years in the past. ...

By The Associated Press (AP) - Pope Francis has had three hospitalizations since he was elected pope in 2013, and underwent main surgical procedure as a younger man to have a part of one lung eliminated. ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature on Wednesday plans to take the ultimate step wanted to cease Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from requiring seventh graders to be vaccinated towards meningitis. ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal appeals court docket judges are in search of compromise on whether or not authorities necessities that medical insurance embrace protection for HIV prevention, most cancers screenings and another kinds of preventive care might be maintained whereas a authorized battle over the mandates performs out. ...

LONDON — Pope Francis emerged from a three-hour stomach surgical procedure at a Rome hospital on Wednesday night, with no recognized problems, the Vatican stated. The process was essential to restore a painful hernia the pontiff developed, linked to a 2021 operation to take away a good portion of his giant gut. ...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed laws Wednesday barring male-born athletes from feminine scholastic sports, and taking gender-transition procedures off the desk for minor youngsters in addition to grownup inmates. ...

JOHANNESBURG — The demise toll from a cholera outbreak in South Africa has climbed to 26 in current days, with dozens extra hospitalized whereas frustration mounts over the federal government’s response to the illness that's frequent in a number of areas of Africa however hardly ever spreads on this nation. ...