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The article focuses on the challenges facing startup One Concern, an artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides insights to emergency responders, after experts identified shortcomings in its lifesaving tools adding it could jeopardize lives. Topics covered include the claim by critics that the firm exaggerated its tools' abilities, and the decision of San Francisco, California to end its contract with the service amidst concerns that its predictions are unreliable.

The article reports on the alliance between suicide-prevention advocates and gun-rights proponents to prevent suicide in Washington State. Topics mentioned include an increase in number of suicides using guns from 2010 to 2018, a suicide-prevention video released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation on its website, and a handgun law in Connecticut that requires a permit before a firearm purchase.

The article discusses that the Western medicine is the most successful l system of healing ever devised and is becoming more so as technology improves and synthetic medicines proliferate. It mentions that the Mother Nature has been synthesizing weird and wonderful medicinal chemicals for over three billion years, many of which chemists could not predict or devise in their wildest dreams.

The article looks at how Black nurse Biddy Mason's depiction in Nathan Zakheim's 1938 mural "History of Medicine in California," which was discovered by history graduate student Laura Voisin George, has saved the artwork from getting destroyed by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Topics mentioned include the General Services Administration's ownership claim, and the pressure facing the university to preserve the historical artwork.

The article reports that California has avoided high rates of Covid-19 infection and deaths by shutting down early in the pandemic, but at a great cost to its economy. Topics covered include the pandemic's impact on the tourism and hospitality industries, a budget deficit, and a jobless rate equal to the peak unemployment of the Great Depression in 1933.

The article reports on the eight immigrant physicians who died after catching the coronavirus in Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS). Topics covered include the dependent of Great Britain's health service on workers from abroad, the alleged racism against foreign physicians in the country and the number of people who had died in British hospitals from the coronavirus.

The article explores the issue of how a society should assess the trade-off between economic well-being and health amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Topics covered include the views of U.S. President Donald Trump and businessmen on the prolonged shutdown of the U.S. economy, the need to have a cost-benefit analysis as suggested by economic historian Walter Scheidel and the consensus among economists and public health experts about the lifting of restrictions.

Reports that Ignacio Siberio, an 80-year-old fisherman was rescued after holding onto a buoy in chilly waters off the Florida keys for more than 18 hours.

Features Da'jour McMillian, a toddler who spent almost 13 hours at the bottom of an abandoned well in Frisco City, Alabama, after he fell while playing in a vacant lot near his home on October 31, 2004. Technique used by rescuers to rescue the boy who was pronounced in good condition in the hospital.

The article describes the efforts of doctors and nurses to save lives after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas on August 3, 2019 carried out by a 21-year-old man who was targeting Mexicans. Topics covered include the complex operations that patients underwent, the injuries that the patients sustained from an AK-47 style rifle carried by the gunman, and the struggle of doctors and nurses from post-traumatic stress caused by the incident.

The article focuses on wedding of the couple Hal Aronson and Laura Stachel and mentions how the couple met each other for the first time and fell in love.

In this article, the author offers suggestions to postpone thanksgiving to save lives during COVID-19 pandemic.

The article focuses on the significant role of U.S. Military Reserve doctors, nurses and medics in the fight against coronavirus to help sale thousands of lives.

An editorial discussing about U.S. states which have moved to vote-by-mail in order to make it more convenient to vote and in to avoid the possible COVID health risks associated with large crowds at polling places. Topics include mail voting increases turnout, particularly among groups that tend not to vote, like young people; and Colorado saw a turnout increase of 9 percent when it switched to all-mail voting.

The article focuses on Gui Cavaleanti, founder of robotic firm MegaBots, made effort on social media Facebook to design medical equipment to fight coronavirus pandemic and mentions that engineers and makers are creating open-source versions of needed medical supplies.

The article reports that measures such as restaurant closure and stay-at-home are contributing to decline in numbers of fever and coronavirus infections and mentions that data evidence has shown that social- distancing restrictions may be working reducing hospital overcrowding.

The article offers information related to a woman whose heart stopped sue to cold weather and low body temperature, and mentions that after six hours in cardiac arrest she began to breathe again and that cold protected her brain from fatal damage.

The article reports on the successful rescue by divers in July 2018 of four of the 13 members of the Wild Boars youth soccer team trapped in the flooded Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. Topics discussed include the assistance provided by the Thai Navy SEALs in the rescue mission, the death of volunteer diver Saman Gunan while placing air tanks along the rescue route, and comment by search operations leader Narongsak Osottanakorn.

The article reports on the challenges faced by cave divers rescuing 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a cave in Thailand. Topics include the death of one veteran diver during the rescue operation, the decrease in oxygen level in cavern where the boys have taken refuge, and the determination of Thai Navy SEAL members and other cave divers to bring the boys home.

The article discusses a Mali migrant's heroic rescue of a 4-year-old boy suspended from a building balcony in Paris, France in May 2018, which has won public approval. Topics covered President Emmanuel Macron's appreciative meeting with Mamoudou Gassama, who will get the requisite documentation to live legally in France, and the man's possible entry into the ranks of Paris firefighters. Also noted is France's tough approach on immigrants and openness only to legitimate asylum seekers.

The article discusses the situation where doctors face legal action for overriding the end-of-life wishes of patients. It offers information on the lawsuit brought against the Maryland General Hospital by cardiac patient Beatrice Weisman's son Christian Weisman, where he alleged the hospital of providing aggressive life-sustaining treatment to his mother. It also offers information on patient Bucilla Stephenson's ventilator placement case against Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia.

The article enumerates questions that should be asked to a financial adviser when asking advice about the life savings in a retirement account. These include the amount of money that one will personally make in cash commission, bonus that one is eligible as a result of one's recruitment to a firm, and other forms of payment that one might redeem for mechandise.

The article reports on the impact of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Durres, Albania, on November 26, 2019.

The article reports that author, Sarah Aiken and Kinley Strohl have married in October, 2019 in Maryland.

The article offers information on the marital violence and killing of spouse, and mentions that she pleaded guilty to second degree man slaughter and was released.

The article informs that sick migrant Maria Isabel Bueso came to the U.S. from Gualemala at the invitation of doctors who were conducting a clinical trial for the treatment of genetic disease, and mentions that she received a letter from the government which states she would face deportation.

The article offers information that U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a single-dose gene therapy, Zolgensma to cure spinal muscular atrophy, along with information on the government incentives to develop treatments for rare and neglected diseases such as the spinal muscular atrophy.

The article discusses that red flan law of the city San Diego, California in which the city's attorney obtained a gun violence restraining order, which is a measure that the authorities or relatives can request from a judge to temporarily remove firearms from people deemed to be a threat.

The article highlights the value of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving mental health and its ability to predict who is going to get depressed and who is in danger of harming themselves.

The article focuses on saving her husband Andrew Goette's life by Ashley Goette by calling 911 for heart arrest and giving birth to her first child.

The article focuses on how illustrator David Capuzzo from Brooklyn saves a man who falls onto the subway tracks at Second Avenue station in Manhattan, New York City on April 29, 2017.

The article offers information on the approach of police in Camden, New Jersey to avoid use of deadly force to minimize harm and save lives, and views of Police Chief J. Scott Thomson on the same.

The article discusses the drowning of former Atlanta Hawks basketball player Dan Roundfield while rescuing his wife, Bernadine (Bernie) Roundfield, in 2012, highlighting Bernie Roundfield's reaction to her husband's death. Topics addressed include Roundfield's basketball career, family life, and personality, and the circumstances leading up to Roundfield's death.

Reports that a 40-year-old Brooklyn (N.Y.) man who swam into the ocean at Rockaway Beach trying to save three teenagers who were floundering in a current died after suffering a heart attack. Review of how two of the teenagers made it to the shore while one remains missing; Discussion of the incident and the individuals involved.

The editors expresses their insights on a research analysis of the social factors for the recipients of the Carnegie Medal for heroism which were given to people who risk their lives for saving others.

The New Old Age Paula Span posted to nytimes.com/newoldage: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An article on Thursday about the lifesaving role of colonoscopy screening described the preparation for the procedure incorrectly. Although the vast majority of colonoscopies involve sedation, sedation is not required in every case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISTANBUL -- A 13-year-old boy has been rescued from the debris more than five days after a powerful earthquake jolted Turkey's east, leaving at least 570 people dead and more than 2,500 injured, the Disaster Crisis Center said on Friday. The boy, Serhat Tokay, who was only slightly injured, asked for water and food after search teams pulled him out of the rubble at around 2 a.m., NTV news reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the days immediately after the discovery that 33 workers trapped at the San Jose Mine were alive, Chilean officials cautioned that it might take up to four months to reach them with a rescue hole. In the end, it took only about six weeks to do what mine safety experts say is a job with little precedent: drilling a precision shaft, wide enough to accommodate a man, to a spot more than 2,000 feet -- almost half a mile -- underground. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The summer of 2010 will be remembered for its record heat. But it has provided a different memory for Bernard J. Fisher II, the director of health and safety at the American Lifeguard Association. This was the year he heard a sharp rise in complaints about lifeguards who were texting on the job. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the rain tapered off and the sun briefly appeared, helicopters resumed their search on Wednesday morning for scores of people believed missing in landslides and flooding that hit these rugged mountains of southern Taiwan last weekend. Army officials said 470 people had been airlifted out of the affected area, and another 400 were spotted by rescuers as they waited for help in fields and on mountaintops in three villages, including 200 from Hsiao-lin, an isolated farming community that was home to more than 1,000 residents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''I went from going for a run to being in the ambulance,'' the woman said several months later in describing her ordeal. ''It was like 10 minutes had passed. But it was almost three weeks.'' On Aug. 28, a Thursday, a 23-year-old schoolteacher from Hamilton Heights named Hannah Emily Upp went for a jog along Riverside Drive. That jog is the last thing that Ms. Upp says she remembers before the deckhands rescued her from the waters of New York Harbor on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 16. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]