Abigail Brooks

3 days ago | nbcnews.com | Abigail Brooks

Dubbed operation "Spiderweb," Ukraine's audacious drone attack Sunday on four Russian air bases - one of them deep inside Siberia - has brought the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in modern warfare sharply into focus. While accounts differ on the extent of the damage caused by the drones, which were reportedly smuggled to the perimeter of the bases in the backs of trucks, Ukraine's security service, the SBU, put the estimated cost to the Kremlin at $7 billion.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Abigail Brooks |Yamiche Alcindor

May 23, 2025, 4:45 PM EDTThis week, Julie Eshelman has been holding her breath, waiting to see if President Donald Trump delivers on his campaign promise to make in vitro fertilization free. Eshelman is a military wife and, thanks to IVF, a mom. She first began fertility treatments in 2016, and she and her husband finally welcomed a baby girl — five years, several miscarriages and $80,000 later.

1 month ago | consultantlive.com | Abigail Brooks

New research suggests metabolic syndrome (MetS) is highly prevalent and associated with increased levels of pain catastrophizing in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).1 Study findings suggest MetS negatively impacts overall pain catastrophizing, as measured by the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, as well as its individual components, including helplessness, rumination, and magnification.1 A type of arthritis that typically affects people with psoriasis or a biological family history of...

1 month ago | consultantlive.com | Abigail Brooks

Individuals with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) may benefit from greater volume and intensity of physical activity as well as maintaining normal rest-activity rhythm, according to findings from a recent study.1 Leveraging data from the UK Biobank, the population-based cohort study found higher levels of volume and intensity of physical activity and normal rest-activity rhythm were associated with a reduced risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease...

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Erik Ortiz |Ben Kamisar |Abigail Brooks

Several district attorneys have considered charging former death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden months after a White House executive order called on them to do so. So far, a Louisiana prosecutor successfully sought a first-degree murder charge against Thomas Steven Sanders in the death of a 12-year-old girl who was killed in Catahoula Parish in 2010.