BETHESDA, Maryland, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences issued the following news: The term "rare disease" can be a misnomer. While there are more than 10,000 diseases that are individually rare, they collectively affect millions of people worldwide. The burden for people with a rare disease is significant, as I outlined in my NIH Director's Blog post. Most rare diseases start in childhoo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A research team led by the University of Maryland has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize. The team is being recognized for developing a scalable, distributed training framework called AxoNN, which leverages GPUs to rapidly train large language models, or LLMs. Winners of the Gordon Bell Prize will be announced at the Inter  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: * * * Defendant Did Not Report More than $2.2M in Cash * * * A Maryland man who owns a retail store pleaded guilty today to evading his income taxes by not reporting cash taken from his business. According to court documents and statements made in court, for over 20 years, William M. Bundy of District Heights owned and operated Bab's Inc., a store located in District Heights, that only   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Paul Alejandro Felix, 25, of Glendale, California, was sentenced yesterday to 164 months in prison for participating in a wide-spread narcotics trafficking conspiracy that distributed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills purchased in Southern California to destinations throughout the United States, including the District of Columb  more