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WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary repeatedly asked to see “data” or “science” showing vaccines are safe – but when an influential [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two Senate hearings as he tries [...]

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of https://apnews.com/article/pig-kidney-transplant-xenotransplant-revivicor-844b33450a9c228d1138827c1de8549d – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nothing doctors prescribed controlled Michael Garrity’s dangerously high blood pressure — until they zapped away some nerves on his kidneys. If that sounds weird, well, kidneys help [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported Monday. That estimate is based on a new [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you missed the https://apnews.com/article/covid19-vaccinations-cdc-coronavirus-a785acb4aca8e69f21b6f1a41c021e2c for flu and COVID-19 vaccines, it's not too late. Health officials say it's important to get vaccinated ahead of the holidays, when [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people revoking organ donor registrations, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — If he wins next month's election, https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump would be the oldest person in U.S. history to be elected president. Yet the 78-year-old Republican nominee refuses to disclose […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A unique peek inside the human brain may help explain how it clears away waste like the kind that can build up and lead to Alzheimer’s disease. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccine-novavax-virus-shots-4630f56cc909816db736ed6249c259e3 – and a lot of older adults also need [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. The study [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved https://apnews.com/article/covid19-vaccinations-cdc-coronavirus-a785acb4aca8e69f21b6f1a41c021e2c on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains -- and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too. With the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — New blood tests could help doctors diagnose https://apnews.com/article/alzheimers-drug-kisunla-leqembi-donanemab-fd804c1271ae185a62f080e072d21698 disease faster and more accurately, researchers reported Sunday – but some appear to work far better than others. It’s [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government advisers Wednesday said it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall -- targeting a version of the ever-evolving [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man's death in Mexico was caused by a strain of bird flu called H5N2 that has never before been found in a human, the World Health [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who received a https://apnews.com/article/pig-organ-kidney-transplant-xenotransplant-f708d90b6059f974d492d26c283a16cb is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the [...]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An array of advanced tests found no brain injuries or degeneration among U.S. diplomats and other government employees who suffer mysterious health problems https://apnews.com/article/havana-syndrome-intelligence-anonalous-health-incidents-diplomats-cf087b8255532056b5597232544bfb71 ” researchers reported [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for https://apnews.com/article/spring-forward-time-change-daylight-saving-41beeca27270e67482b6a2e2904034bb and losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day. It [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even the family pet’s name — likely could empathize when https://apnews.com/hub/joe-biden mixed [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It’s a genetic legacy of https://apnews.com/article/horse-horseback-riding-archeology-5caf7da564dbafad6aa50379b0927220 who swept into the [...]

The last bedtime of 17-month-old Hayden Fell’s life was heartbreakingly normal. Crib video shows the toddler in pajamas playing happily as his parents and sister sang “Wheels on the Bus” [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer’s drugs seep inside the brain faster — by temporarily breaching its protective shield. The novel experiment was a first [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the https://apnews.com/article/pig-heart-transplant-d894f6ce27b7db71ecb0ec393cac3e86 his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, [...]

The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today’s vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic — even though [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that he plans to nominate cancer specialist Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to become director of the National Institutes of Health. Bertagnolli is a [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. approved the first vaccine for RSV on Wednesday, shots to protect older adults against a respiratory virus that’s most notorious for attacking babies but endangers [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Older Americans and people with weak immune systems can get an extra COVID-19 booster dose this spring. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday signed [...]

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it’s semitranslucent, white tubes [...]

Byline: Lauran Neergaard, ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. is getting another COVID-19 vaccine choice after the Food and Drug Administration cleared Novavax shots for adults. Novavax makes a more traditional type [...]

Byline: LINDA A. JOHNSON and LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writers Pfizer said Monday that an early peek at the data on its coronavirus vaccine suggests the shots may be a [...]

Byline: LAURAN NEERGAARD; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Even if your daughters don't pay much attention to politics, they'd be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump's attack of a former Miss [...]

The article focuses on the discovery of a racially biased kidney function test that caused delays in kidney transplants for Black individuals, prompting corrective actions to address racial inequities in transplant priority. Topics include the impact of the biased test on organ transplantation for Black patients, efforts to rectify past injustices by adjusting waiting times for affected individuals, and concerns about racial biases embedded in medical algorithms affecting healthcare outcomes.

Byline: Lauran Neergaard Scientists are developing a robotic sleeve that can encase a flabby diseased heart and gently squeeze to keep it pumping. So far it's been tested only in [...]