Health & Medicine

CDC: West Virginia HIV wave could be ‘tip of the iceberg’

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<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. &mdash; For years, West Virginia has had the nation’s highest rate of opioid drug addictions and drug overdose deaths. Now the state...

CDC: West Virginia HIV wave could be ‘tip of the iceberg’

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For years, West Virginia has had the nation’s highest rate of opioid drug addictions and drug overdose deaths. Now the state...

St. Patrick’s Day to be largely virtual in NYC for 2nd year

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NEW YORK — A largely virtual St. Patrick's Day is planned for New York City on Wednesday, one year after the annual parade celebrating...

Reynolds, Odunze receive US call-ups but not Hoppe

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CHICAGO — Defender Bryan Reynolds received his first call-up to the U.S. national team after the 19-year-old made his debut for Roma last weekend. ...

Syria president’s office: Assad, wife recovering from virus

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<p>DAMASCUS, Syria &mdash; Syria’s first couple are on their way to recovery nine days after testing positive for the coronavirus, President Bashar Assad’s office...

Palestinians get 60,000 vaccine doses through WHO program

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JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority said Wednesday it will receive...

Pre-embryos made in lab could spur research, ethics debates

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<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of human development, which they...

Pre-embryos made in lab could spur research, ethics debates

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WASHINGTON — For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of human development, which they...

White supremacist propaganda surged in 2020, report says

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NEW YORK — White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report that the Anti-Defamation League provided...

China blasts US ‘evil past of genocide’ at UN rights body

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GENEVA — China on Wednesday blasted the United States' human rights record, citing what it called U.S. failures against COVID-19 that cost “hundreds of...