Lauran Neergaard

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Study: Thinking positive helps migraine drug work

Study: Thinking positive helps migraine drug work

Lauran Neergaard · January 8, 2014 8:29 pm

This handout photo provided by University of Colorado, Boulder, taken Dec. 20, 2013, shows University of Colorado, Boulder, student Karlie Johansen collecting a saliva sample from 3-year-old Anders Todd, as part of a study of sleep patterns in young children. In an earlier study, researchers reported that if young children continually struggle to fall asleep at night, it might be because their body clock is out of sync with their bedtime. (AP Photo/Miranda Fan, University of Colorado)

Body clock may be to blame when tots fight sleep

Lauran Neergaard · December 31, 2013 7:58 am

Dr. Steven Birnbaum works with a patient in a CT scanner at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. (AP/Jim Cole)

Lung cancer scans urged for some smokers, not all

Lauran Neergaard · December 30, 2013 10:09 pm

This photo taken Dec. 20, 2013 shows double hand transplant recipient, Lindsay Aronson Ess grimacing as she works on her dexterity during a physical therapy session in Richmond, Va. Sure your liver or kidney could save someone's life. But would you donate your hands, or your face? Signing up to become an organ donor may get more complicated than just checking off a box on your driver's license. The government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ transplants, giving more Americans who are disabled or disfigured by injury, illness or combat a chance at qualifying for this radical kind of reconstruction. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

UNOS to oversee hand, face transplants like organs

Lauran Neergaard · December 27, 2013 8:10 am

Do vitamins block disease? Some disappointing news

Do vitamins block disease? Some disappointing news

Lauran Neergaard · December 17, 2013 12:44 am

Medical test surprises: What should you be told?

Medical test surprises: What should you be told?

Lauran Neergaard · December 12, 2013 8:16 pm

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a world AIDS Day event, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Obama reveals $100 million HIV research initiative

Lauran Neergaard · December 2, 2013 10:53 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Shepherd Center shows Jason DiSanto, left, receiving a tongue piercing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. An experimental device is letting paralyzed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction. The Tongue Drive System was developed at Georgia Tech and tested at Shepherd Center in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Georgia Tech, Gary Meek)

Tongue pierce lets the paralyzed drive wheelchairs

Lauran Neergaard · November 27, 2013 9:16 pm

Gov’t to keep ban on paying bone marrow donors

Gov’t to keep ban on paying bone marrow donors

Lauran Neergaard · November 27, 2013 8:20 am

Boys a bit more likely than girls to be born early

Boys a bit more likely than girls to be born early

Lauran Neergaard · November 15, 2013 9:25 am

FILE - This Aug. 4, 2012 file photo shows new football helmets that were given to a group of youth football players from the Akron Parents Pee Wee Football League, in Akron, Ohio. It's not just football. A new report says too little is known about concussion risks for young athletes, and it's not clear whether better headgear is an answer. The panel stresses wearing proper safety equipment. But it finds little evidence that current helmet designs, face masks and other gear really prevent concussions, as ads often claim. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

More study urged on concussions in young athletes

Lauran Neergaard · October 31, 2013 5:17 am

Docs get more precise about full-term pregnancy

Docs get more precise about full-term pregnancy

Lauran Neergaard · October 22, 2013 9:13 pm