Lauran Neergaard

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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)

Peek into brain shows how kids learn math skills

Lauran Neergaard · August 17, 2014 5:20 pm

Ebola: Questions, answers about an unproven drug

Ebola: Questions, answers about an unproven drug

Lauran Neergaard · August 12, 2014 7:41 am

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, before the House subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing on "Combating the Ebola Threat." (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented

Lauran Neergaard · August 8, 2014 1:03 am

In this undated photo provided by Kentucky BioProcessing, tobacco plants are grown in a controlled environment at the Kentucky BioProcessing facility in Owensboro, Ky. The company is using tobacco plants grown at this facility to help manufacture an experimental drug to treat patients infected with Ebola. (AP Photo/Kentucky BioProcessing)

Ethical issue: Who gets experimental Ebola drug?

Lauran Neergaard · August 6, 2014 10:50 pm

This handout photo provided by Cedars-Sinai, taken in Feb. 2014, shows Dr. Eduardo Marban, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. No batteries required: Scientists are creating a biological pacemaker, by injecting a gene into the hearts of sick pigs that changed ordinary cardiac cells into a special kind that induce a steady heartbeat. The study, published Wednesday, is one step toward developing an alternative to electronic pacemakers that are implanted into 300,000 Americans a year."There are people who desperately need a pacemaker but can't get one safely," said Marban, who led the work. "This development heralds a new era of gene therapy" that one day might offer them an option. (AP Photo/Eric Myer, Cedars-Sinia)

Trying gene therapy to create biological pacemaker

Lauran Neergaard · July 16, 2014 11:55 pm

Summer cocktails may be more potent than you think

Summer cocktails may be more potent than you think

Lauran Neergaard · July 4, 2014 8:20 am

How strong is that drink? Calculator helps figure

How strong is that drink? Calculator helps figure

Lauran Neergaard · July 3, 2014 9:40 pm

This handout photo provide by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, taken March 5, 2014, shows Dr. Christian Bermudez of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center checking patient Jon Sacker, who was being treated with an experimental device called the Hemolung that acts like dialysis for lungs. Doctors credit the experiment with buying Sacker time to improve enough to undergo a lifesaving double lung transplant later that month. (AP Photo/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)

Unapproved device buys time for new pair of lungs

Lauran Neergaard · July 2, 2014 6:13 am

NIH creates network to tackle mysterious diseases

NIH creates network to tackle mysterious diseases

Lauran Neergaard · July 1, 2014 7:53 pm

Guideline: Most healthy women can skip pelvic exam

Guideline: Most healthy women can skip pelvic exam

Lauran Neergaard · June 30, 2014 6:48 pm

Designer T cells fight viruses after transplants

Designer T cells fight viruses after transplants

Lauran Neergaard · June 25, 2014 7:06 pm

This handout photo provided by the Southern Impact Research Center in Tennessee, taken June 18, shows equipment that can test how football helmets perform against certain concussion-causing forces. There is no concussion-proof football helmet, but an organization that sets safety standards for athletic equipment was preparing new testing criteria.

New tests for helmets proposed in concussion fight

Lauran Neergaard · June 19, 2014 8:42 pm