COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, whose half-century reign makes her Europe’s longest-serving monarch, will undergo “major back surgery” later this month, the royal palace said Wednesday. The 82-year-monarch will be hospitalized afterward and undergo “a longer rehabilitation process,” the royal household said in a statement. “During a long period, Her Majesty has been affected by…
Bryson DeChambeau Has Surgery to Address Vertigo
Bryson DeChambeau underwent surgery in December to alleviate an issue that caused his vertigo, he revealed in an interview with the LIV Golf website posted Wednesday. DeChambeau had surgery on Dec. 15 to remove a retention cyst in his left maxillary sinus. That issue led to dizzy spells and bouts of vertigo that have plagued…
Biden Says First Lady Jill Doing Well After Skin Surgery
WASHINGTON—First lady Jill Biden is doing well following her skin surgery, U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday, one day after cancerous skin lesions were removed from her face and chest. “She’s doing really well. She was under a long time,” the president said. “She’s up. We had breakfast this morning. She’s recovering.” A…
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley to Undergo Surgery After Injuring Hip
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who was elected in November to serve an eighth term in the Senate, is set to undergo surgery this week after sustaining an injury on Jan. 10, his office has announced. A statement from his office said he “hurt his hip” but “is otherwise in good spirits and is expected to make…
Should Older Seniors Risk Major Surgery?
Nearly 1 in 7 older adults die within a year of undergoing major surgery, according to an important new study that sheds much-needed light on the risks seniors face when having invasive procedures. Especially vulnerable are older patients with probable dementia (33 percent die within a year) and frailty (28 percent), as well as those having emergency…
Jailed Belarusian Protest Leader Out of Intensive Care: Ally
KYIV—Jailed Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova has been moved from intensive care to a different ward and her condition is improving, her political allies said on Thursday. The diagnosis of the outspoken critic of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has still not been disclosed by the hospital where she underwent surgery on Monday, opposition politician Viktor…
Tesla Safety at Center of South Korean Trial Over Fiery, Fatal Crash
SEOUL—In an upscale Seoul neighborhood two years ago, a white Tesla Model X smashed into a parking lot wall. The fiery crash killed a prominent lawyer—a close friend of South Korea’s president. Prosecutors have charged the driver with involuntary manslaughter. He blames Tesla. Choi Woan-jong, who had eked out a living by driving drunk people…
Surgeons Find Evidence of a Soul After Patient Describes Operating Room After Declared Dead for 20 Minutes
Dutch near-death-experience (NDE) researchers have compiled more than 70 cases of people who’ve purportedly left their bodies and observed scenes they could not have perceived with their physical senses. The details of what they saw—for example, actions performed by people in the hospital—could be verified, providing perhaps some of the strongest evidence for the mind’s…
‘Wild Ride’ Begins With Court Clash Over First US Law To Ban Child Transgender Surgeries
When America’s first law banning “gender transition procedures” for minors was passed in Arkansas last year, it spawned a wave of similar legislation. But legislative proposals in a dozen other states withered on the vine, while the Arkansas law faced an immediate court challenge that temporarily blocked the law from taking effect in July 2021….
Organ Transplant Rejections Following Infection and COVID-19 Injections, Studies Show
Most of us will never need a transplant, but for the people who do, transplants can be lifesaving. After transplant operations, recipients are told to follow a strict drug regimen to make sure their organs are not rejected by their own immune system. Rejection can result in transplant failure and necessitate removal of the donor…
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