Ablation can be done on an outpatient basis. For more delicate ablations—like a cardiac ablation—your healthcare provider may want to keep you overnight for observation. This article looks at some common types of ablation and how they work. It takes a step-by-step approach on what you can expect, including potential complications. Before an Ablation Before the ablation procedure, your healthcare provider will run a number of tests. These are used to view the affected part of the body and identify areas that need to be repaired or removed....

Why is the teen birth rate increasing again despite the $1.5 billion spent on abstinence-only sex education since 1996? And what should be done about the rise? To find out, NEWSWEEK’s Karen Springen spoke with Heather Boonstra, senior public policy associate at the New York City-based Guttmacher Institute, the nation’s leading reproductive-health think tank. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: Why do you think the teen birth rate is increasing again? Heather Boonstra: We don’t know entirely....

The action tips off on Monday night and runs through Wednesday evening, though most college basketball fans will probably want to find a way to get out of their Wednesday night plans, as that figures to house the marquee matchups, including the Duke - Wisconsin nightcap showdown. MORE: Latest AP Top 25 Poll | College basketball’s top dunkers | The Challenge in photos Here’s the schedule for the games below....

Officers with the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s office in St. Paul analyzed blood samples from the family to find the cause of death. The tests revealed a deadly level of carbon monoxide, authorities said. The victims were found Saturday night in a home in south Moorhead by relatives who checked the house after not hearing from them. Police are still trying to figure out a time frame for the deaths but said the three children who live there did not attend school Friday....

New Orleans Pelicans at Los Angeles Clippers Two of the NBA’s top power forwards will face off against each other Saturday night as the Pelicans, led by Anthony Davis, play Blake Griffin and the Clippers. Over a recent four-game stretch, Griffin has averaged nearly 26 points per game on over 60 percent shooting from the field. He’ll go up against the league’s newest superstar in Davis, who currently ranks near the top of the league in multiple major categories: scoring (25....

Point spreads and totals were available in Las Vegas on Saturday morning. Check The Linemakers on Sporting News’ odds page for updated Las Vegas lines. AccuScore best bet No. 1: Mavericks at Rockets, Saturday, 9:35 p.m. ET, ESPN There’s nearly a 62 percent chance the total combined score in the Mavericks-Rockets matchup stays UNDER 213, providing great value for bettors. Supporting trend: All four meetings between these teams this season stayed UNDER the total....

AccuScore Best Bet No. 1: There’s about a 57.8 percent chance the total combined score in Clippers-Spurs Game 3 goes OVER 203, a four-star (out of four) AccuScore hot trend. The average score after AccuScore ran 10,000-plus simulations is 105-103, in favor of San Antonio. When the simulated total has differed by 4.5 to 6 points when compared to Vegas – as it does in this matchup – AccuScore has gone 7-3 (70 percent, +280 units) over the last week....

A jury trial for Oathkeepers accused of conspiracy in carrying out the insurrection from nearly a year ago is scheduled to begin this April. It’s set to involve those who have been in pretrial detention since their arrests at the beginning of 2021. While a judge raised concerns about the length of their pretrial incarceration, few have been released. “For better or worse, that length of pretrial detention doesn’t shock me,” Benjamin Glassman, a former United States Attorney, told Newsweek....

When the latest FIFA rankings update was released on Monday, Malaysia dropped four spots from 166 in the previous month to 170 in October. Given the way the national team has gone, any drop in rankings isn’t particularly fresh news but it’s impact on the possibility of a Malaysian team participating in the Asian Champions League (ACL) for the first time is massive. Malaysia are currently ranked sixth in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) club competition ranking in the East Zone....

Kate Ruane, a senior legislative counsel at the ACLU said in a statement that the decision to suspend Trump from social media could set a precedent for big tech companies to silence less privileged voices. “For months, President Trump has been using social media platforms to seed doubt about the results of the election and to undermine the will of voters. We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions – especially when political realities make those decisions easier,” the statement read....

Prevalence Acoustic neuroma occurs only in about 2 out of 100,000 people when there are no other precipitating factors. The most common non-genetic reason for developing an acoustic neuroma is auditory trauma and there is some belief that low-dose radiation for procedures of the head and neck at a young age may increase your risk. While there have been rumors that long-term cell phone use can be associated with acoustic neuroma, research does not support this rumor....

On Tuesday, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick issued a letter to all employees. The letter comes in response to an alleged walkout that was scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 28. “We believe that our values as employees are not being accurately reflected in the words and actions of our leadership,” the organizers said in a statement. Kotick started off the letter by thanking employees who came forward with their stories and said that the company’s initial responses were “tone-deaf....

Lena Wilson of The New York Times panned the horror release, which stars 23-year-old Stenberg alongside Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace and Pete Davidson. The film follows a group of rich twentysomethings who attend a party at a remote mansion. Wilson’s review described the movie as “bloated with pompous irony” and said it was “perfectly tailored to one of [production company] A24’s key demographics: bougie 25-year-olds who value branding over substance....

NEWSWEEK: Tell me about your trip—why go to the DRC now? Lucy Liu: The situation has gotten progressively worse. I think it is important to not get to the point where it is hopeless. Right now is a great opportunity to go in—there is a democratically elected president—and a possibility of actually having services and access to speak to people. This conflict has been going on for so long and it is not seen as exciting in the news [anymore]....

Causes ASC occurs when a blood clot suddenly forms within a coronary artery, usually due to the acute rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. Plaque rupture can occur at any time, often completely without warning. The blood clot may produce partial or complete blockage of the artery, either way placing the heart muscle supplied by that artery in immediate jeopardy. The Three Types of ACS Cardiologists divide ACS into three distinct clinical patterns....

Porphyrias can affect the skin and nervous system. The conditions develop when a gene mutation interrupts the chemical process that is responsible for creating blood cells. When the process is disrupted, a chemical that is meant to be used to create hemoglobin builds up in your blood and tissues. This article will cover how acute intermittent porphyria develops, how it is different from other forms of porphyria, and what to expect if you have the condition....

MCCAIN: [youtube:WuRHRRYHKIY] The McCain camp calls its spot “A Better Way”–but “A Third Way” may have been a more descriptive title. Airing in Oregon–and dovetailing with McCain’s climate change speech today in Portland–the ad seeks to distance McCain from his party’s global-warming deniers while still offering assurance to his conservative base. “One extreme thinks high taxes and crippling regulation is the solution,” says the narrator. “Another denies the problem even exists....

“Classy as always. I remember when my fellow Republicans would have condemned this stuff but, that was a whole 4 years ago,” Kinzinger wrote in a tweet on Saturday night. Kinzinger’s Twitter post comes in response to remarks Trump made while speaking to a Republican National Committee (RNC) gathering at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. During his speech, Trump spoke of the Republican lawmakers who voted in favor of his second impeachment following the January 6 Capitol riot....

Last week, Kinzinger was also the only Republican to back the Democrats over the plan struck by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) allowing Senate Democrats to lift the ceiling through a simple majority vote. The Illinois congressman, one of 10 Republicans to vote for the second impeachment of ex-President Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection and one of only two GOP lawmakers on the January 6 committee investigating the riots that day, will not be standing for re-election in the 2022 midterms....