Politics Sep 19 WATCH: Kennedy’s vaccine advisers decline to recommend COVID shot for all Americans In a series of votes, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t specifically recommend vaccination but said people could make individual decisions.
Health Aug 06 A look at how mRNA vaccines work as RFK Jr. cancels government-funded research U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, canceled $500 million in government-funded research projects to create new mRNA vaccines against respiratory illnesses.
Health Jul 29 Get active, challenge your brain and eat healthy to stay sharper while aging Older Americans worried about cognitive decline can stay sharper for longer by exercising both their bodies and their brains and eating healthier.
Nation May 22 FDA advisers debate COVID vaccine recipe amid questions about fall shots Government vaccine advisers are meeting to decide if the recipe for COVID-19 vaccines needs updating for this fall and winter.
Health May 20 Trump officials say yearly COVID shots will no longer be approved for healthy adults and children The FDA said Tuesday annual COVID shots will still be regularly approved for seniors and younger people with increased health risks from the virus.
Science Apr 09 How a mouse watching ‘The Matrix’ helped scientists create the largest map of a brain to date Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.
Politics Mar 05 WATCH: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testifies at Senate confirmation hearing for NIH director Bhattacharya, a health economist at Stanford University who was an outspoken critic of government COVID-19 shutdowns and vaccine policies, faced questions from senators from both parties Wednesday about drastic funding cuts and research priorities at the National Institutes of Health.
Health Jan 02 5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don’t know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
Health Dec 17 Alabama woman recovering well after latest experimental pig kidney transplant Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ in a quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality.
Health Aug 28 Donating a kidney even more safe than previous believed, U.S. study shows Thousands of people die each year waiting for an organ transplant. It's possible for living donors to give a one of their two kidneys or part of a liver, the only organ that regenerates.