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.
Politics Jun 03 WATCH: Fauci testifies on COVID-19 origins and response in GOP-led House hearing A Republican-led subcommittee has spent over a year probing the nation’s response to the pandemic and whether U.S.-funded research in China may have played any role in how it started.
Health May 31 Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove failing pig kidney Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, in a dramatic pair of surgeries in April that also implanted a pump to keep her failing heart beating.
Health May 06 New research shows people carrying 2 copies of a certain gene are more likely to have Alzheimer's For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer's disease. A gene called APOE4 has long been considered a key risk factor. But new research says if people inherit two copies of that gene it's not…
Nation Apr 01 A racially biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant The U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients' kidneys appear healthier than they really were.