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Butte high school football player recovers from life-threatening spleen injury, finds new athletic passion

Butte high school football player recovers from life-threatening spleen injury, finds new athletic passion

BUTTE, Mont. – A high school athlete in Butte faced a life-threatening situation after a severe injury during a football game last fall. Preston Jensen, a senior at Butte High, experienced a ruptured spleen, a critical organ for filtering blood and maintaining a healthy immune system, during the Bulldogs'

Sri Lanka takes control of Iranian ship fearing new US sub attack

Sri Lanka takes control of Iranian ship fearing new US sub attack

Sri Lanka has offloaded crew of an Iranian navy vessel and assumed countrol of it, the South Asian nation's president said Thursday, a day after a deadly US submarine attack on another ship. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in a televised address that his country's navy

Even patients are shocked by prices insurers will pay — and it costs all of us

Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy. “I’m grateful I didn’t die,” she said, but she was shocked to see that the outpatient surgery was billed to her insurer for about $100,000. Jamie Estrada of Albuquerque, New

Lawmakers, health groups resist their states’ rural health fund plans

In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund. But plans to spend those nine-digit awards aren’t all warmly received. At least one group of Republican state lawmakers appears

China's overstretched healthcare looks to AI boom

China's overstretched healthcare looks to AI boom

Throughout her first pregnancy, Wang Yifan had lots of questions, which she usually put to renowned obstetrician Duan Tao -- or rather, an AI clone of the top Shanghai-based doctor. Duan has created a digital double for healthcare app AQ, which now boasts more than 100 million users in a

Could $2.4M prevent Montana children from dying in the ER? Some experts say yes.

Montana’s Public Health and Human Services Department is encouraging hospitals to take steps to better prepare their emergency rooms to treat pediatric patients, following new recommendations from a coalition of health care professional groups. Hospitals can apply for the state’s “pediatric prepared” status, which is based on a

Wyoming wants to make five-year federal rural health funding last ‘forever’

Wyoming wants to make five-year federal rural health funding last ‘forever’

Wyoming officials say they have a plan to make five years of upcoming grants from a new $50 billion federal rural health program last “forever.” The state could tackle rural health issues long into the future by investing its awards from the Rural Health Transformation Program, the director of Wyoming’