Lauran Neergaard

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More children live to age 5, work still to be done

More children live to age 5, work still to be done

Lauran Neergaard · September 16, 2014 12:17 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2014 file photo, Valor Christian High School sophomore and volunteer Paige Kula loads a pallet with medical supplies bound for Sierra Leone to combat Ebola, inside the warehouse of Project C.U.R.E., in Centennial, Colo. The US strategy in fighting Ebola is two-pronged: Step up efforts to deliver desperately needed supplies and people to West Africa, while making sure hospitals at home know what to do if someone travels here with the infection. In addition to shipments of hospital beds and protective suits, the government is taking unusual steps to encourage a variety of health care workers to volunteer to go to the outbreak zone _ and is offering some training before they head out. Here are questions and answers on the U.S. response. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

US works to step up Ebola aid, but is it enough?

Lauran Neergaard · September 15, 2014 6:27 pm

This image from video shows Dr. Dan Lucey of the Georgetown University Medical Center, during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, where he discussed the three weeks he spent in Sierra Leone working in a hospital in Freetown and helping other doctors to train local health workers to use personal protective equipment. (AP Photo)

From Ebola front line: Teaching how to stay safe

Lauran Neergaard · September 11, 2014 7:14 am

Study: Screening may benefit heavy-smoking seniors

Study: Screening may benefit heavy-smoking seniors

Lauran Neergaard · September 8, 2014 9:43 pm

FILE - This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. The hope is that the first human safety study of the vaccine might eventually be used in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way. (AP Photo/NIAID, File)

Monkey study: Ebola vaccine works, needs booster

Lauran Neergaard · September 8, 2014 9:02 am

NIH finds old ricin, other forgotten germs in labs

NIH finds old ricin, other forgotten germs in labs

Lauran Neergaard · September 6, 2014 1:49 am

OK, so we have germs. But they’re our unique germs

Lauran Neergaard · August 29, 2014 8:46 am

Shades of Pigpen: We travel with our own germs

Lauran Neergaard · August 28, 2014 7:15 pm

Dr. Eric De Jonge of Washington Hospital Center conducts a Medicare house call at the home of patient Beatrice Adams, in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Study: House calls for frail elders bring savings

Lauran Neergaard · August 25, 2014 8:53 am

Study: Combining vaccines boosts polio immunity

Lauran Neergaard · August 21, 2014 7:12 pm

Drug for Ebola-like virus promising in ill monkeys

Lauran Neergaard · August 20, 2014 7:27 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, third grade teacher Melissa Grieshober teaches a math lesson at Silver Lake Elementary School in Middletown, Del. Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)

Kids’ brains reorganize when learning math skills

Lauran Neergaard · August 18, 2014 1:00 pm