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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

lauren neergard

In this photo provided by NYU Langone Health, surgeons prepare a genetically modified pig heart for transplant into a recently deceased donor at NYU Langone Health on July 6, 2022, in New York (Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health via AP)
July 13, 2022, 2:33 pm
Scientists put pig hearts in brain-dead people in bid to improve odds for the living
Researchers use special new methods to check for animal viruses; experiments come after historic but ultimately failed attempt to use a pig’s heart to save a dying man
By lauren neergard
In this February 2, 2021, file photo, students wear masks as they work in a fourth-grade classroom, at Elk Ridge Elementary School in Buckley, Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
April 14, 2022, 4:00 pm
Pfizer seeking to expand COVID booster shots for healthy elementary school-age kids
Company says new data shows healthy 5 to 11-year-olds could benefit from another kid-sized shot; US has yet to allow vaccinations for children under 5
By lauren neergard
In an attempt to battle the measles outbreak, some countries in Europe have enacted laws making vaccinating children mandatory. (Illustrative. Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 2, 2022, 8:33 am
Pfizer asks FDA to authorize COVID-19 vaccine for US kids under 5
Request means young American children could begin to receive the shots in March; toddlers and preschoolers are only group still not eligible for vaccination against coronavirus
By lauren neergard and MATTHEW PERRONE
An Israeli receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit health care maintenance organization, on September 9, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 20, 2021, 2:10 pm
Pfizer says COVID vaccine works in kids 5-11, will seek emergency OK
Company announces it will submit shot for FDA approval by the end of the month; dose for children is far lower than for adult immunization
By lauren neergard
Illustrative: A medical assistant prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 22, 2021. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
February 15, 2021, 6:51 pm
COVID-19 vaccines might be tweaked if mutations get worse
Regulators look to flu shots for model on how to upgrade vaccine doses in case coronavirus variants prove resistant to immunization
By lauren neergard
The team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins University gather round a mannequin. The university announced the first total penis and scrotum transplant on April 23, 2018. (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins)
April 24, 2018, 3:07 pm
US veteran who survived blast receives penis transplant
In most extensive operation of its kind, doctors rebuild entire pelvic region, including scrotum, of man injured in Afghanistan
By lauren neergard
A hazardous material cleaner removes a blue barrel from the apartment in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed (photo credit: AP Photo/LM Otero)
October 7, 2014, 1:40 am
Nurse in Spain is first to catch Ebola outside outbreak zone
White House continues to rule out blanket travel ban to West Africa
By Connie Cass and lauren neergard
A hazardous material cleaner removes a blue barrel from the apartment in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed (photo credit: AP Photo/LM Otero)
October 4, 2014, 6:55 pm
Obama administration urges calm over Ebola
Texas officials monitoring 50 people, 10 at high risk, who came into contact with first person to be diagnosed in US with disease that has killed 3,400 in West Africa
By Lolita C. Baldor and lauren neergard
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