Lauran Neergaard

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Obama budget proposes new fight against superbugs

Obama budget proposes new fight against superbugs

Lauran Neergaard · March 4, 2014 9:47 pm

This handout photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, provided by The Rockefeller University, shows Elana Simon, 18, of New York, pictured in a laboratory at The Rockefeller University in New York. The teen survivor of a rare liver cancer spearheaded a study, published Thursday in the journal Science, that led a team of researchers to find a gene flaw involved with the disease. (AP Photo/Zach Veilleux, The Rockefeller University)

Teen helps scientists study her own rare disease

Lauran Neergaard · February 27, 2014 10:35 pm

Ovary removal aids high-risk women but at what age

Ovary removal aids high-risk women but at what age

Lauran Neergaard · February 24, 2014 9:02 pm

Guidelines to reduce C-section births urge waiting

Guidelines to reduce C-section births urge waiting

Lauran Neergaard · February 19, 2014 11:24 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shows a jazz pianist playing inside an MRI machine. Jazz musicians are famous for musical conversations _ one improvises a few bars and another makes up an answer. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore had jazz pianists play this way inside MRI machines to show how their brains respond, and found that language regions enable the musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation. (AP Photo/Dr. Charles J. Limb, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Jazz study shows link between music and language

Lauran Neergaard · February 19, 2014 10:01 pm

Animal moms customize milk depending on baby’s sex

Lauran Neergaard · February 14, 2014 9:47 pm

More talking to babies helps their brains

More talking to babies helps their brains

Lauran Neergaard · February 14, 2014 9:32 am

More talking, longer sentences help babies’ brains

More talking, longer sentences help babies’ brains

Lauran Neergaard · February 13, 2014 9:02 pm

Step to artificial hand that feels what you touch

Lauran Neergaard · February 6, 2014 4:38 pm

Experiment adds sense of touch to artificial hand

Lauran Neergaard · February 6, 2014 1:06 am

Study finds why some supplements might be risky

Study finds why some supplements might be risky

Lauran Neergaard · January 29, 2014 10:31 pm

EMBARGOED UNTIL 12:01 AM, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 2014 - FILE - In this April 9, 1965 file photo, Surgeon General Luther Terry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Commerce Committee hearing on proposed labeling of cigarette packages. It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms _ even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit. A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General's office says the nation is at a crossroads, celebrating decades of progress against the chief preventable killer but not yet poised to finish the job.(AP Photo, File)

Surgeon general adds to list of smoking’s harms

Lauran Neergaard · January 17, 2014 6:20 am