Doctor busts common myth about pelvic floor issues - and warns of health issues

Jimmy Buffett has shared a health update after being hospitalized for an undisclosed illness.

New Delhi: With India reporting between 600-900 covid cases daily, scientists at the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) said there has been a consistent decline in the infection rate across the country. Right now, Omicron’s three different variants—XBB.1.16, XBB and BA.2— are in circulation. The positivity rate has also declined to 0.64%.

NEWARK, Del. - A woman has been arrested and another is being sought after what could have ended in a $2,300 Target theft in Newark, Delaware.Police say both women were caught filling up a cart with merchandise inside the Target at Christiana Mall over the weekend.One suspect left the store to scan the parking, while the other attempted to leave the store with the cart, according to authorities.Officials say she tried to make a run for it when an employee stopped her, but she was quickly apprehended by mall security.

Ireland will be the first country in the world to put labels on alcohol bottles warning of its reported risk of causing cancer, along with other health information.The labels will warn about the risk of consuming alcohol when pregnant and of liver disease and fatal cancers from consumption, as well as calorie counts, the government said in a statement. They will be implemented in three years, by May 2026.“Packaging of other food and drink products already contains health information and, where appropriate, health warnings,” said Ireland’s health minister, Stephen Donnelly, in a statement.

Krispy Kreme said the deal begins on Wednesday, May 24 and only while supplies last at participating shops. (Credit: Provided) CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Krispy Kreme is sweetening graduation season by offering a dozen glazed doughnuts to the Class of 2023. The doughnut chain on Monday said any high school or college senior who wears their "Class of 2023 swag," such as a shirt, jacket, or even a graduation cap and gown, can get a free Original Glazed dozen in a special "Dough‑ploma"-wrapped box.The offer is on Wednesday, May 24 and only while supplies last at participating shops, Krispy Kreme said.No purchase is necessary to score the deal, the company said. Krispy Kreme is an American multinational doughnut company and coffeehouse chain founded by Vernon Rudolph."We started this during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we haven’t forgotten that the lives of this year’s graduates were heavily impacted by the pandemic," Dave Skena, Krispy Kreme’s global chief brand officer, said in a statement."We are thrilled to celebrate their perseverance and spirit the best way we know how: free Original Glazed doughnuts," Skena added.The free dozen doughnuts come in a special "Dough‑ploma"-wrapped box.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference following the G7 Leaders Summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023.

PHILADELPHIA - Cherelle Parker, the Democratic nominee in the race for Philadelphia mayor, will hold her first press conference Monday, nearly a week after a health issue prevented her from speaking on election night. Parker, 50, was unable to attend her own victory celebration last Tuesday as she dealt with a dental emergency at the University of Pennsylvania. She spend the rest of the week resting, recovering, holding some meetings with staff. Monday's press conference will follow her meeting with Pennsylvania Gov.

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will represent India in the 76th World Health Assembly at Geneva, Switzerland to be held from May 21-30, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. In resonance with India’s commitment to a healthier world, the Union health minister will deliver keynote address at side events for ‘Heal in India and Heal by India’, as well as ‘Together we fight against TB’ reiterating India’s contribution in the field of Medical Value Travel and India’s resolve to eliminate Tuberculosis from India by 2025.

Janelle Monae is embracing the present moment.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet face to face Monday after a weekend of on again, off again negotiations over raising the nation's debt ceiling and mere days before the government could reach a "hard deadline" and run out of cash to pay its bills.The two sides are working to reach a budget compromise before June 1, when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the country could default.McCarthy and Republicans are insisting on spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit. Biden has come to the negotiating table after balking for months but says the GOP lawmakers will have to back off their "extreme positions."On Sunday evening, negotiators met again and appeared to be narrowing on a 2024 budget year cap that could resolve the standoff.

The Brady Bunch) and Jim Nabors all had to endure the demands thanks to Kevheads. You can still hear these calls today virtually anywhere, be it at a performance of Mamma Mia or even at a hockey game.You know the kind: Mötley Crüe, Queensrÿche and, of course, Motörhead. “Rock dots,” as they’re sometimes known, are Swedish and German in origin and technically known as a “diacritic,” which is a type of accent.

DEPTFORD, N.J. - A man put a police officer in a chokehold before a bystander came to his aid during a struggle at a New Jersey mall, police said.Deptford Township police said officers were sent to the Deptford Mall just after 7:30 p.m. Friday on a report of a disorderly man allegedly harassing patrons.A uniformed officer found the man on the second floor of the mall and asked him to leave multiple times but he refused to do so and "allegedly became confrontational," eventually taking a fighting stance, police said.As the officer tried to arrest him on defiant trespass and disorderly conduct charges, a struggle ensued during which the man was able to put a chokehold on the officer, "effectively cutting off" his blood and oxygen supply, police said.During the struggle, a bystander interceded and helped the officer escape the chokehold and get the man into handcuffs, police said.

Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier has lost an appeal to have her suspension from the Commons overturned for breaking covid rules.

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erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools. The notice states: "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color." NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson also issued a statement regarding the travel advisory: "Let me be clear - failing to teach an accurate representation of the horrors and inequalities that Black Americans have faced and continue to face is a disservice to students and a dereliction of duty to all.

Lewis Capaldi is opening up about music and memories.

A Lanarkshire charity organised a range of activities to mark Mental Health Awareness Week.

Fourteen people have died so far and around 36,000 people have been evacuated due to floods in northern Italy that have left streets underwater.

NEW DELHI : The covid-19 pandemic highlighted the need for collective effort in building resilient global systems and boosting the global health equity, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the 76th Session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland on Sunday via video message.  PM congratulated the World Health Organization on completing 75 years and expressed confidence that global health agency would be setting goals for the next 25 years when it reaches 100 years of service.

India has reported 756 new covid cases across the country in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry said on Sunday. Besides this, the number of active cases has declined to 8,115. While the daily positivity rate has reached 0.63%, the weekly positivity rate remains at 0.71%.

It's an eerie relic of pre-pandemic life. The Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre in Rochdale was once a bustling mall with five floors of shops, including household names such as New Look, Wilko, and Ryman.

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - Reports of a police impersonator in Bucks County have sparked an investigation by a local police department this weekend.The alleged impersonator pulled over a 31-year-old woman as she left a Wawa on West Trenton Avenue in Morrisville around midnight Saturday.Police say the suspect is a man in his 30s wearing a plain dark uniform with a gold badge, carrying a flashlight.

A Florida man was caught on camera pointing a gun at another man who was making a deposit at an ATM machine.According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, the victim said he was trying to make a deposit at a drive-thru ATM when an unknown man pulled up behind him in a black Cadillac sedan and started honking his horn.The victim told police he got out of his van to get a deposit slip from the back of the vehicle, and then the two men "exchanged words." That’s when the Cadillac driver stepped out of his car and pulled out a gun.READ MORE: Miami police hunt for nightclub vixen they say drugged, stole $600K jewelry from man she met at Dirty RabbitVideo shows the suspect is a bald man with tattoos who was armed with a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine.He’s believed to be in his 40s or 50s and can be heard yelling and cursing at the victim before driving away.Suspect wanted for pointing gun at man in drive-thru ATM line (Broward County Sheriffs Office) Anyone with information is asked to contact BSO Violent Crimes Detective Jennifer Petrofsky at 954-321-4238 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app.

Gemma Owen has been flooded with praise and support as she revealed her next move in honour of her brother. The Love Island star has shared that she has become an ambassador for a charity which funds research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.

NEW YORK - Timothy Keller, a pastor and best-selling author who founded the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, died Friday morning at home after three-year bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 72.His family announced that he had been in hospice care, and that he died with his wife of 48 years, Kathy, by his side.Keller and his family launched Redeemer in 1989, and the congregation went on to welcome more than 5,000 attendees across its multiple locations each week.A new evangelical church in Manhattan filled with young adults was unique in a city known more for its secularism and the Gothic spires of its older sanctuaries.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge dismissed all charges against a former police officer accused of assaulting a woman who accidentally drove a sport utility vehicle into a 2020 protest — but prosecutors quickly refiled the case.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the judge's action Friday came after a police officer who was a witness failed to appear Friday for the aggravated assault trial of 42-year-old Darren Kardos. The woman wasn't in court either, but prosecutors said they had video evidence to put the case on without her testimony.The municipal court judge agreed to a defense request to dismiss the case while acknowledging that prosecutors were likely to refile the charges — something Assistant District Attorney Lyandra Retacco said was done later in the day.

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska Legislature on Friday approved a 12-week abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care for people younger than 19 in a move so contentious that lawmakers on both sides have said they may be unable to work together in the future.Conservative lawmakers called in a visibly ill colleague so they would have enough votes to end a filibuster and pass a bill with both measures. Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, who pushed for the bill, has promised to sign it into law.The mood in the Nebraska Capitol has been volatile since lawmakers on Tuesday advanced by a single vote the hybrid measure that ties together restrictions that Republicans have pursued across the U.S.

New Delhi: The union health ministry on Saturday said that it has commenced cashless treatment facility for all Central Government Health Scheme or CGHS beneficiaries, serving and pensioners, at six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). “Patient care facilities available at 6 fully functional AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jodhpur, Raipur and Rishikesh shall be extended to the CGHS beneficiaries on cashless basis. It will be particularly beneficial for the senior citizens (retired pensioner beneficiaries of CGHS) who find it difficult to submit individual reimbursement claims and follow up approvals.

India reported a daily increase of 782 covid-19 cases, marking a decline in the nation's active cases to 8,675, as per the health ministry data on Saturday. With a daily positivity rate of 0.61% and a weekly positivity rate of 0.77%, this marks a continuation of the downtrend seen in recent weeks. In the past three years, the nation has witnessed over 44.9 million cases and recorded 531,824 deaths due to the virus.

Lewis Capaldi has said that he’d be willing to step away from music to protect his mental health if he had to.The artist admitted that fame has proved a detriment to his mental health, and if necessary, he wouldn’t rule out walking away to look after himself.Speaking to Rebecca Judd on Apple Music, he said: “I think on this album in particular I talk a bit more about my mental health, which has taken a beating over the last little while.“I’m managing it better now but I think in 2020 I was kind of glad when we got put in lockdown because I had done my first arena tour in the UK, and we had just done an Australia and Asia tour before that.“I was in a bad way where I was just having panic attacks every single day on stage and I was just shy,” he continued. “I still haven’t quite got there, but it’s interesting that this thing that you love to do and you’ve always wanted to do becomes something that causes you such distress, but such is the modern world.“”If I did another album and my head was scrambled and I felt horrible, right now I’m at a point where I can balance my mental health and how I feel in general.

New York City‘s skyscraper skyline is iconic, but it may be causing the Big Apple to sink, a new study suggests.According to research published by the scientific journal Earth’s Future, the cumulative 1.68 trillion-pound weight of New York City’s buildings is causing the city to sink about one to two millimetres per year on average.The “subsidence rate” — the scientific term for the speed of sinking — was observed by three University of Rhode Island oceanologists and a researcher from the U.S. Geological Survey.

FORT DIX - For the first time in five years, Joint Base McGuier-Dix-Lakehurst held a free airshow that organizers hope will inspire the next generation of military aviation fanatics. The event, called Power in the Pines, was placed on hold for half a decade due to finical backing, the coronavirus pandemic, and the base being used to house Afghan refugees. "It's been a long time since we've been able to open the base to the public due to several conditions and reasons, but now we have a literal line of school buses half a mile long to let the kids in on day one of the airshow," Col. Bert Wesley Adams told FOX 29. Onlookers watched in amazement as several aircrafts - including the crowd-favorite F-15 - streaked across the skies at breakneck speeds and pulled off impressive maneuvers.

South Carolina groom who lost his bride on their wedding night after an alleged drunken driver slammed into their golf cart tearfully recounted the moment he learned his new wife was dead."I remember waking up just kind of foggy, out of sorts," Aric Hutchinson, 36, told ABC's "Good Morning America" of opening his eyes in a hospital after the crash. "I could see my mom's face, and you could just tell something was wrong, and I asked her, 'Where's Sam? Where's Sam?' And that's when she told me there was an incident, and Sam didn't make it," he recalled.Hutchinson said he had no memory of Jamie Komoroski, 25, rear-ending their golf cart April 28.  FILE - This photo provided by the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, in South Carolina, shows Jamie Lee Komoroski, on April 29, 2023.

Wendy Williams has reportedly been hospitalized twice in the last several weeks — including currently, as she reportedly remains under the care of doctors as of Friday morning.

FILE - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post via Getty Images, introduces their newly developed lunar lander "Blue Moon" and gives an update on Blue Origin and the progress and vision of going to space to benefit CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after it lost out to SpaceX.Blue Origin received a $3.4 billion contract Friday to lead a team to develop a lunar lander named Blue Moon. It will be used to transport astronauts to the lunar surface as early as 2029, following a pair of crew landings by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.NASA will get astronauts to lunar orbit using its own rockets and capsules, but wants private companies to take over from there.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the agency wants different landing options as it seeks a return to the moon more than a half-century after the end of the Apollo moonshots.Blue Origin is kicking in billions of dollars, on top of the NASA contract, to help establish a permanent presence on the moon."We have a lot to do before we successfully land and return astronauts," said John Couluris, a Blue Origin vice president.Two years ago, Blue Origin sued after NASA awarded SpaceX the contract for the first lunar landing.

FILE - The sun sets on the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City on May 14, 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) NEW YORK - Some of America's largest cities have seen a significant decrease in population since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, with the Big Apple topping the list during the three-year period.A report by the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court got rid of a pandemic-related immigration case with a single sentence.Justice Neil Gorsuch had a lot more to say, leveling harsh criticism of how governments, from small towns to the nation's capital, responded to the gravest public health threat in a century.The justice, a 55-year-old conservative who was President Donald Trump's first Supreme Court nominee, called emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans perhaps "the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country."He pointed to orders closing schools, restricting church services, mandating vaccines and prohibiting evictions. His broadside was aimed at local, state and federal officials — even his colleagues."Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale," Gorsuch wrote in an eight-page statement Thursday that accompanied an expected Supreme Court order formally dismissing a case involving the use of the Title 42 policy to prevent asylum seekers from entering the United States.The policy was ended last week with the expiration of the public health emergency first declared more than three years ago because of the coronavirus pandemic.From the start of his Supreme Court tenure in 2017, Gorsuch, a Colorado native who loves to ski and bicycle, has been more willing than most justices to part company with his colleagues, both left and right.He has mainly voted with the other conservatives in his six years as a justice, joining the majority that overturned Roe v.

A view of Dubai downtown in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on November 21, 2022. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Who says you cannot reach for the moon? A proposed $5 billion real estate project wants to take skyscraper-studded Dubai to new heights — by bringing a symbol of the heavens down to Earth.Canadian entrepreneur Michael Henderson envisions building a 274-meter (900-foot) replica of the moon atop a 30-meter (100-foot) building in Dubai, already home to the world's tallest building and other architectural wonders.Henderson's project, dubbed MOON, may sound out of this world, but it could easily fit in this futuristic city-state. Dubai already has a red-hot real estate market, fueled by the wealthy who fled restrictions imposed in their home countries during the coronavirus pandemic and Russians seeking refuge amid Moscow’s war on Ukraine.And even though a previous booms-and-bust cycle saw many grand projects collapse, Henderson and others suggest his vision, funded by Moon World Resorts Inc., where he is the co-founder, might not be that far-fetched."We have the biggest ‘brand’ in the world," Henderson told The Associated Press, alluding that the moon itself — the heavenly body — was his brand.

Jessica Alba is opening up about her Mexican heritage, sharing some of the struggles her parents had to go through. “I was raised by parents who were in survival mode because we were living paycheck to paycheck,” she explained during her recent interview with MSNBC.The Hollywood star revealed that it was “very stressful and challenging” at the time, adding that it was hard for them to have “long-term goals or dreams when you are just trying to get by.” The actress, who shares a lot of similarities with her grandmother Isabel Martinez, previously told PopSugar that she “inherited a lot” from her.