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WEDNESDAY, May 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- People who have emergency surgery in poor nations may be much likelier to die than patients in wealthy countries, a new study finds.

WEDNESDAY, May 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Many heart bypass patients are skipping medications meant to maintain smooth blood flow in their repaired veins, a new study finds.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Humana, saddled with the enormous costs from its tie-up with rival health insurer Aetna Inc., reported a 46 percent decline first-quarter profit, though it still topped most expectations.

NEW YORK (AP) — Time Warner Inc. on Wednesday reported a 25 percent rise in its first-quarter profit on strong growth at its Turner and HBO units.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — The City Council has rejected an agreement with a company to build a $240 million pork processing plant in Mason City.

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit schools reopened Wednesday after teachers who had called out sick for two days received assurances from the financially struggling district that they would continue to be paid.

DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on Detroit's financially struggling schools, which saw teacher sick-outs this week (all times local):

FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) — Police say a person with a knife attacked and killed a Fort Valley State University student on the school's main campus in central Georgia.

ATLANTA (AP) — IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc. (ICE) on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $369 million.

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — The Priceline Group Inc. (PCLN) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $374.4 million.

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say they're investigating a robbery at a home in the neighborhood where Atlanta's mayor lives.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kate Spade & Co. (KATE) on Wednesday reported first-quarter net income of $11.6 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

LONDON (AP) — It's a rock for the ages.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Low oil prices and freight rates weighed on profits at Danish shipping and energy group A.P. Moller-Maersk, though not as sharply as analysts had feared.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Lower than expected patient volumes in the wake of the consolidation of its two Natchez facilities have prompted Merit Health Natchez to reduce its workforce.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates' national airline says several passengers were injured when one of its flights encountered sudden turbulence as it prepared to land in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

(HealthDay News) -- Experts say to lose a pound a week, you'll need to cut 3,500 calories during that span. But how can you do so without feeling hungry?

(HealthDay News) -- Tears, degeneration and inflammation may all contribute to Achilles tendinitis, leading to heel and ankle pain.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in North Carolina say a man convicted of running a sex trafficking operation that recruited women and girls as young as 16 into prostitution has been sentenced to life in prison.

LONDON (AP) — Oil company Royal Dutch Shell said first-quarter earnings plunged 58 percent as depressed crude prices create "hugely challenging times" for the energy industry.

LONDON (AP) — As winter turned to spring, the eurozone economy appears to have lost some — but by no means all — of the momentum that saw it grow faster than the U.S. in the first quarter of the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The world's biggest brewer, AB Inbev, says economic and political turmoil in Brazil hit its quarterly earnings, with sales volumes declining by 10 percent in the huge Latin American nation.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Once dismissed as a fringe contender, businessman Donald Trump now is all but certain to lead the Republican Party into the fall presidential campaign against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton — a stunning political triumph for a first-time…