FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to ...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
23/08/2024
LAURAN NEERGAARD
Pig transplant research yields a surprise: Bacon safe for some people allergic to red meat
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat after a bi...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
21/07/2024
Meet some of the world’s cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn jus...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
21/07/2024
What cognitive tests can show — and what they can’t
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the new chant in Washington politics: “Get a cognitive test!” Political oppon...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
10/07/2024
Colombian family’s genes offer new clue to delaying onset of Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists studying a family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some carry...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
20/06/2024
Man in Mexico died of a bird flu strain that hadn’t been confirmed before in a human, WHO says
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man’s death in Mexico was caused by a strain of bird flu called H5N2 that has ne...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
06/06/2024
Fauci testifies publicly before House panel on COVID origins, controversies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the govern...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
03/06/2024
Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman’s life
NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, p...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
24/04/2024
A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital ...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
01/04/2024
New study finds no brain injuries among ‘Havana syndrome’ patients
WASHINGTON (AP) — An array of advanced tests found no brain injuries or degeneration among U.S. dipl...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
18/03/2024
How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health -- and how to prepare
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time and losing that ...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
08/03/2024
Verbal gaffe or sign of trouble? Mixing up names like Biden and Trump have done is pretty common
WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even t...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
10/02/2024
Crib videos offer clue to mysterious child deaths, showing seizures sometimes play a role
The last bedtime of 17-month-old Hayden Fell’s life was heartbreakingly normal. Crib video shows the...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
05/01/2024
Man receives the first eye transplant plus a new face. It’s a step toward one day restoring sight
NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extr...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
10/11/2023
US adds another option for fall COVID vaccination with updated Novavax shots
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
04/10/2023
What to know as fall vaccinations against COVID, flu and RSV get underway
WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated COVID-19 vaccines may be getting a little easier for adults to find but th...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
29/09/2023
Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
WASHINGTON (AP) — Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his ...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
23/09/2023
US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection ag...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
12/09/2023
Updated COVID shots are coming. They’re part of a trio of vaccines to block fall viruses
WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shot...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
09/09/2023
FDA approves RSV vaccine for moms-to-be to guard their newborns
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Monday approved the first RSV vaccine for pregnant women so the...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
22/08/2023
How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days la...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
19/08/2023
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants
NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s...
LAURAN NEERGAARD
16/08/2023