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Male midwife Sehloho Ntlhane leans over a pregnant patient while using a Pinard horn to listen to the baby's heartbeat during a prenatal examination at Mpharane Health Centre in Mohale's Hoek district, Lesotho, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kayleen Morgan)

Africa's male midwives are rare but increasing in the fight against pregnancy deaths

1:18 AM on Sunday, August 30

The southern African kingdom is seeing more men becoming midwives

People light candles in the memory of the newborn victims outside the Mother and Child Health ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/M.A. Sheik)

8 officials suspended after probe into Pakistan hospital fire that killed 14 newborns

12:22 PM on Saturday, August 29

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the suspension of eight officials and criminal proceedings after a fire killed 14 newborns at an Islamabad hospital

Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's red jersey celebrates on the podium after the second stage of the La Vuelta cycling race, with start in Monaco and finish in Manosque, France, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Philippe Magoni)

Tadej Pogacar requires surgery on broken clavicle after head-over-handlebars crash in Spanish Vuelta

11:24 AM on Saturday, August 29

Five-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar was sent hurdling head-over-handlebars in a frightening crash while leading the Spanish Vuelta

Palina Louangketh shops at Idaho Capital Asian Market in Boise, Idaho, on June 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

How international supermarkets can break up a dinner rut without costing a fortune

1:46 AM on Saturday, August 29

When kitchen burnout hits, figuring out what to make for dinner every day can feel like an impossible task

FILE - Dr. Jessica Early holds a vial of the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at Prisma Health Pediatrics in Greer, S.C., March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

Measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania spark fight among politicians and health officials

7:12 PM on Friday, August 28

The recent announcement of Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in decades has ignited a public feud among politicians and health officials who disagree over the role of the contagious disease in the fatalities

This undated photo provided by Juul Labs Inc. on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, shows an updated version of the company's e-cigarette. (Juul Labs Inc. via AP)

Juul gets OK to sell updated vaping device with age-gating technology

3:25 PM on Friday, August 28

E-cigarette maker Juul Labs has received U.S. permission to sell an updated version of its vaping device

FILE - Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen speaks to journalists at a press conference in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Reports split over whether forced contraception of Greenlandic women and girls constituted genocide

1:58 PM on Friday, August 28

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide

This undated photo provided by Trimbos Institute of Mental Health and Addiction shows pills that have a depiction of President Donald Trump on one side and on the other side NL and Trump stamped into the surface. (Trimbos Institute of Mental Health and Addiction via AP)

A Dutch institute issues a 'Red Alert' over potentially lethal Trump-shaped ecstasy pills

12:03 PM on Friday, August 28

A respected drug and mental health institute in the Netherlands is warning about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped like U.S. President Donald Trump's head

Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom for their second day of deliberations as defense attorney Kevin Reddington sits to her right at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Jurors are excused without reaching a verdict in Lindsay Clancy murder trial

8:24 AM on Friday, August 28

Jurors have been excused for the day after not yet reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial

Congo’s Health Minister Roger Kamba administers an Ebola vaccine to a health care worker in Kisangani, Congo, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Samy Kamanga)

Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new health zones with a total of 60 areas now affected

6:11 AM on Friday, August 28

Congo government figures show that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo

FILE - Carolina Panthers' Thomas Davis (58) waits for the snap during the second half of an NFL football game against and the Green Bay Packers in Charlotte, N.C., Dec. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)

Panthers LB Thomas Davis suffered opioid addiction that opened the door to sprawling drug case

3:03 AM on Friday, August 28

An opioid addiction sullied the once-stellar reputation of one of the NFL's good guys, Thomas Davis

This image shows part of Joan Rubinger’s All Pro Sports Medicine website in August 2026, displaying social media photos of her with several celebrity athletes. (AP Photo)

She was a pain specialist to top athletes. Her opioid prescribing alarmed the DEA

3:02 AM on Friday, August 28

Joan Rubinger overcame a catastrophic biking accident that left her paralyzed to become an influential pain-relief specialist helping top-tier athletes get back on the field after acute and chronic injuries

Patrick Norton, Tulane University senior vice president, chief operating officer and treasurer, right, and Jeff Benjamin, vice president of facilities and campus development, talk in a hallway inside the old Charity Hospital building Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Beloved New Orleans hospital, wracked by floods and grief in Hurricane Katrina, to get a makeover

12:14 AM on Friday, August 28

A beloved New Orleans hospital building where doctors and nurses heroically treated patients without electricity after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is poised for redevelopment

Lindsay Clancy watches jurors as they enter the courtroom to start their second day of deliberations in her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 in Plymouth Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial ends second day of deliberations without a verdict

12:08 AM on Friday, August 28

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial have ended a second day of deliberations without a verdict

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