Restaurant food and packaged foods are often high in salt to make them more palatable. The Food and Drug Administration wants to see the food industry gradually reduce sodium levels in these foods.Eric Savage | Getty Images Even amid the coronavirus pandemic, heart disease continues to be the nation's leading ...

Gloria Clemons gives a COVID-19 vaccine to Navy veteran Perry Johnson at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., in September.Scott Olson | Getty Images Conventional wisdom says that if you're vaccinated and you get a breakthrough infection with the coronavirus, you can transmit that infection to someone ...

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving shoots against the Milwaukee Bucks during Game 1 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series in New York in June.Adam Hunger | AP Brooklyn Nets All-Star guard Kyrie Irving won't be allowed to play in practices or games, general manager Sean Marks said Tuesday, strongly ...

According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's preliminary updated advice released on Tuesday, older adults without heart disease shouldn't take daily aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke.Emma H. Tobin | AP Older adults without heart disease shouldn't take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart ...

A nurse prepares a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a San Antonio senior center in March. A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to review Moderna's booster shot.Sergio Flores | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration released briefing documents Tuesday on ...

Surgeons remove the liver and kidneys of a deceased donor, for later transplantation.Owen Franken | Getty Images The night before Brian Gorzney planned to check into rehab for alcohol use, he began vomiting blood. First at 2 a.m. Then 5. And again at 11. When he arrived at the rehab ...

Each week, we answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." See an archive of our FAQs here. A friend's invitation to fly ...

Registered nurse Christie Lindog works at the cardiovascular intensive care unit at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Calif., on Sept. 2.Apu Gomes | AFP via Getty Images With a second pandemic winter approaching, there are promising signs that the worst of the delta surge has run its course, ...

Drinking artificially sweetened diet sodas may lead to increase in appetite and weight gain, research finds.Pornchai Jaito/EyeEm | Getty Images/EyeEm The "diet" in diet drinks may be a false promise for some soda lovers. True, they deliver the fizz and taste of a soda experience, without the calories. Yet, new ...

Margaret Applegate (in yellow scarf), a United Airlines customer service agent, is accompanied by Lori Augustine, vice president of United's San Francisco hub, as Applegate gets a COVID-19 vaccine in September ahead of United's mandated deadline.Sam Almira | United Airlines In the quest to get more Americans vaccinated, one thing ...