Lauran Neergaard

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump waves at a campaign event at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump would be the oldest person to become president. He’s not sharing health details

October 16, 2024 at 1:19 p.m.

If he wins next month’s election, 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 new details...

A pharmacist holds a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

It’s time to roll up sleeves for new COVID and flu shots

September 25, 2024 at 11:33 a.m.

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines – and a lot of older adults also need protection against...

FILE — Syringes filled with doses of the Pfizer/BioTech COVID-19 vaccine ready to administer in a clinic in Rochester Hills, Mich., on Jan. 19, 2021. A program that provided more than one million Covid shots to uninsured and underinsured people is coming to an end. (Emily Elconin/The New York Times)

FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days

August 22, 2024 at 1:17 p.m.

U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains — and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.

FILE - A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a study on Alzheimer's disease at Georgetown University Hospital, on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s may be coming to your doctor’s office. Here’s what to know

July 28, 2024 at 9:51 a.m.

New blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease faster and more accurately, researchers reported Sunday – but some appear to work far better than others.

In this undated photo provided by Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Francisco Lopera, right, of the University of Antioquia, a neurologist who has spent decades caring for a large Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s, confers with fellow researcher Yakeel Quiroz of Massachusetts General Hospital. (Massachusetts General Hospital via AP)

Colombian family’s genes offer new clue to delaying onset of Alzheimer’s

June 19, 2024 at 4:29 p.m.

Scientists studying a family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that delays their initial symptoms by five years.

FILE – A closeup of a human brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease, is displayed at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y., on Oct. 7, 2003. According to findings published Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Alzheimer’s quietly ravages the brain long before symptoms appear and now scientists are getting a closer look at the domino-like sequence of those changes _ a potential window to one day intervene. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

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

February 21, 2024 at 6:26 p.m.

Alzheimer’s quietly ravages the brain long before symptoms appear and now scientists have new clues about the dominolike sequence of those changes — a potential window to one day intervene.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 30, 2020.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says US could reach 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day as health officials testify in Senate

June 30, 2020 at 8:30 p.m.

The U.S. is "going in the wrong direction" with the coronavirus surging badly enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci told senators Tuesday some regions are putting the entire country at risk...

FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration's leading health experts on safely dealing with the novel coronavirus will be testifying in a Senate hearing by a videoconference after three of them and the committee's chairman were exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Fauci advierte sobre ‘sufrimiento y muertes innecesarias’

May 12, 2020 at 2:09 p.m.

El doctor Anthony Fauci, el principal especialista del país en enfermedades infecciosas, advertirá al Congreso que una reapertura precipitada durante la pandemia de coronavirus provocará "sufrimientos y muertes innecesarias". Fauci...

18-year-old Nina Nichols prepares to take her dose of Palforzia in her home in Washington.

FDA approves first treatment for kids with peanut allergy

February 1, 2020 at 1:22 a.m.

The first treatment for peanut allergies is about to hit the market, a big step toward better care for all kinds of food allergies -- but still a long way...

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health listens to a question during an AP Newsmaker interview in Washington, Jan. 18, 2018. Fauci says the National Institutes of Health is in a "scramble" to prepare for a potential government shutdown at midnight Friday.

Government scientists scramble to save research ahead of shutdown that could ruin studies

August 22, 2019 at 7:26 a.m.

The nation's premier medical research institute is in "a scramble" to prepare for a partial government shutdown that could ruin costly experiments and leave sick patients unable to enter cutting-edge...

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