Lauran Neergaard

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CARDIFF, WALES – FEBRUARY 16: In this photo illustration, A model of a human brain held in a hand on February 16, 2024 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Silent brain changes precede Alzheimer’s. Researchers have new clues about which come first

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

More than 24 million Americans, by some estimates up to 50 million, have an autoimmune disorder — diseases such as vitiligo (as pictured), lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and dozens more.

Autoimmune diseases like lupus, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis strike far more women than men. Scientists now think they know why

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

FILE – In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Lawrence Faucette sits with wife, Ann, in the school’s hospital in Baltimore, Md., in September 2023, before receiving a pig heart transplant. Lawrence Faucette, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors announced Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)

The second man to receive a transplanted pig heart has died. His last wish: for doctors to ‘make the most of what we have learned’

By The Associated Press and Lauran Neergaard

In this image from video provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Lawrence Faucette, a pig heart transplant patient, works with a physical therapist at the school’s hospital in Baltimore, Md., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (Tom Jemski/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

A U.S. man is working to regain his strength a month after receiving a heart transplant—from a genetically modified pig. His body has yet to reject it

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

side view close-up of pregnant woman touching her belly.

First RSV vaccine for pregnant women wins FDA green light

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

Mary Miller-Duffy speaks with Dr. Robert Montgomery in the NYU Langone Health medical center in New York on Aug. 10, 2023. Montgomery regularly calls Miller-Duffy and her wife with updates with the research involving her brother’s body. “I’m in awe of someone who can make a decision like that at, you know, one of the worst moments in their lives and really think about … humanity,” he says. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Doctor convinced animal parts are needed to meet demand for organ transplants ‘in awe’ of potentially game-changing decision to donate man’s body for research

By Lauran Neergaard, Shelby Lum, and others

Organ donation.

A genetically altered pig kidney transplanted into a human a month ago is still working: ‘It looks even better than a human kidney’

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

Covid booster

Forget the original coronavirus vaccine. Your next booster will tackle the ‘Gryphon’ family of Omicron variants

By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others

FILE – This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. There’s less risk of getting long COVID in the omicron era than in the pandemic’s earlier waves, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help scientists better understand the mysterious condition, published in JAMA on Thursday, May 25, 2023. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

1 in 10 people get long COVID after Omicron, NIH study finds

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

RSV

If you’re pregnant, you can now get a vaccine that protects you and your child from a dangerous respiratory virus

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

a chimpanzee eats peanuts, looks like he’s enjoying his food. his gestures are very similar to human beings. It is located in the middle of the rainforest in the Tacugama Sanctuary, Sierra Leone

Solving ‘the next public health crisis’ is being undermined by a shortage of monkeys, panel controversially concludes

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – JANUARY 25: A health officer prepares a second COVID-19 vaccine booster to a resident at the courtyard of the Jakarta Governor’s office in Jakarta, Indonesia on January 25, 2023. Indonesian Ministry of Health is set to start administering the second COVID-19 vaccine booster for the public on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, as an effort to accelerate vaccination while increasing protection against the virus. (Photo by Eko Siswono Toyudho/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

FDA pushes to make COVID-19 vaccinations easier. At the top of the list: One annual booster instead of two

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

Bioengineered Organs

Doctors are so short of organ transplants that they are considering bioengineered pig organs: ‘It all sounds science fiction-ey but it’s got to start somewhere’

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

COVID-19 vaccine

COVID vaccines for kid under 5 with updates for Omicron cleared by FDA

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2022/02/15: A woman receives her Covid-19 vaccination booster jab during a press tour at a vaccination centre. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

CDC endorses updated COVID boosters that target Omicron strains, clearing the way for shots to begin soon

By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press