How eating fish helps your heart

Scottsdale, Arizona - If you're worried about your heart health, eating at least two servings of fish per week could reduce your risk of heart disease.

Emergency vs. Urgent Care: What’s the difference?

Mankato, Minnesota - It's Saturday morning and your child fell while playing in the backyard. He can't put any weight on his rapidly swelling ankle, and he is sweating and crying in pain. Should you head to the Emergency Department or Urgent Care?

NIH calls for greater inclusion of pregnant and lactating people in COVID-19 vaccine research

Washington, DC - Longstanding obstacles to include pregnant and lactating people in clinical research have led to this population now deciding whether or not to receive a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine without the benefit of scientific evidence, writes Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, and colleagues. Their viewpoint article appears online in JAMA.

Researchers propose that humidity from masks may lessen severity of COVID-19

Washington, DC - Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but now researchers from the National Institutes of Health have added evidence for yet another potential benefit for wearers: The humidity created inside the mask may help combat respiratory diseases such as COVID-19.

Man Sentenced for Operating Multi-Million Dollar International Money Laundering Scheme

Washington, DC - A Ukrainian man was sentenced Thursday to 87 months in prison and ordered to pay $98,751.64 in restitution after pleading guilty to committing wire fraud, stemming from his participation in a scheme to launder funds for Eastern European cybercriminals who hacked into and stole funds from online bank accounts of U.S. businesses.