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LeBron James is not opting into what would have been a $51.4 million contract for this season and instead will seek a new deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, a person with knowledge of the decision said Saturday.The terms of the new deal could be finalized quickly, said the person, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither James nor the Lakers revealed the decision publicly. ESPN, The Athletic and the Los Angeles Times all reported the decision earlier Saturday.The move is among those coming just ahead of the NBA’s free-agency period, which formally opens at 5 p.m. Central on Sunday, though at least $1.2 billion in contracts already have been agreed upon because of new rules that allowed teams to speak with their own players about new deals — in many situat...

Former President Donald Trump made false claims about late-in-pregnancy abortions during Thursday’s debate with President Joe Biden, experts say.Abortion is poised to be one of the biggest topics that will define this year’s presidential election.On Thursday, Trump repeated claims he made in 2016 regarding late-in-pregnancy abortions during a debate against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.He claimed: “They will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month and even after birth.”By definition, late-in-pregnancy abortions take place at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than 1% of all abortions occur at this stage of pregnancy. More than 80% occur at or before nine weeks of pregnancy, and just 6% occu...

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a blood disorder that occurs when your body's immune system mistakes your red blood cells as a threat and creates antibodies to destroy them. Red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body. When antibodies destroy red blood cells faster than your body can replace them, your body's tissues do not get enough oxygen, which can cause symptoms like fatigue, weakness, and headaches.  AIHA is rare and affects one to three individuals per 100,000 people each year. While the exact cause of AIHA is currently unknown, sometimes infections, medications, or underlying autoimmune diseases can trigger the condition. Treatment for AIHA typically involves medications to suppress the immune system and blood transfusions to replenish lost re...

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Emergency room visits up for Americans 65 and older with cannabis poisoning Emergency room visits up for Americans 65 and older with cannabis poisoning 02:12 Prophet Premium Blends is recalling all of its Diamond Shruumz edible products sold nationwide because they contain toxic levels of a chemical found in certain mushrooms consistent with symptoms that have stricken 39 people in 20 states.The recall involves Diamond Shruumz cones, chocolate bars and gummies, both micro- and mega/ext...

A scientist whose research has been at the center of controversy over an Alzheimer’s drug candidate has been charged with fraud.A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at the City College of New York, on charges of falsifying data to obtain grants totaling roughly $16 million from the National Institutes of Health.Dr. Wang’s studies underpinned research into a diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease and simufilam, a drug in advanced clinical trials. Simufilam’s manufacturer, Cassava Sciences, a pharmaceutical company based in Texas, has said the drug improves cognition in Alzheimer’s patients.Alzheimer’s disease affects roughly six million Americans — a number that is expected to double by 2050 — and promising treatments generate tremendous excitement. Cassava...

An Aedes Aegypti mosquito is seen in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center (CIDEIM) in Cali, Colombia. — Reuters/File Study detected 2 Zika virus cases between August, November 2021.Karachi had reported hundreds of cases of dengue-like disease.However, affected patients back then had tested negative for dengue.ISLAMABAD: Researchers have finally unraveled the cause of the mystery illness that struck Karachi back in 2021 finding that the Zika virus was behind the disease that had affected hundreds of people in the country's financial hub.United World Antiviral Research Network (UWARN) Principal Investigator Dr Najeeha Talat Iqbal, while speaking to The News, revealed that the investigators at Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi detected two cases of t...

A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the doctor is a hologram.It might sound like science fiction, but it is the reality for some patients at Crescent Regional Hospital in Lancaster, Texas.In May, the hospital group began offering patients the ability to see their doctor remotely as a hologram through a partnership with Holoconnects, a digital technology firm based in the Netherlands.Each Holobox — the company’s name for its 440-pound, 7-foot-tall device that displays on a screen a highly realistic, 3-D live video of a person — costs $42,000, with an additional annual service fee of $1,900.The high-quality image gives the patient the feeling that a doctor is sitting inside the box, when in reality the doctor is miles away looki...

Few foods say “grilling” more than burgers. They’re the quintessential cookout food — easy to prepare, transport, grill and customize with an array of toppings. Burgers also happen to be incredibly expansive. Sure, ground beef gets the most attention, but don’t count out pork, chicken, turkey and vegetables, either.