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Surgical instruments are arranged during an organ procurement surgery June 15, 2023, in Tennessee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Medicare proposes new transplant system rules that might spur use of less-than-perfect organs
The government has proposed new rules for the nation’s transplant system that aim to increase use of certain donated organs and set additional safety standards for donor groups.
 
A person looks out of a window in an apartment building in Kansas City, Mo., May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Being a night owl may not be great for your heart but you can do something about it
Being a night owl can be bad for your heart. That’s according to a study showing night owls had poorer overall cardiovascular health than most people, plus a modestly higher risk of a first heart attack or stroke.
 
The organ donor entry on the back of a driver license is photographed in New York, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
Public mistrust linked to drop in deceased donor organ donations and kidney transplants
A new report says organ donations from the recently deceased dropped last year, resulting in fewer kidney transplants.
 
A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Here’s what to know about the unprecedented changes to child vaccine recommendations
U.S. health officials have made unprecedented changes to childhood vaccine recommendations, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts. The U.S.
 
FILE - A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians
The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
 
A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Flu is rising rapidly, driven by a new variant. Here’s what to know
Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday that after a slow start to flu season in early December, much of the country is now seeing a jump in cases.
 
An exam room at a medical clinic in Detroit on July 29, 2015. (Charles V. Tines/Detroit News via AP, File)
You finally got a doctor’s appointment. Here’s how to get the most out of it
It’s not that unusual for a 20-something to text Mom from the doctor’s office for help answering a health question.
 
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)
Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts
A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health.
 
Dr. Robert Malone chairs a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in Atlanta on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025 to consider changes in hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for infants. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?
The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines. The conflict intensified when an advisory panel, handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F.
 
The Food and Drug Administration seal is seen at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
A dozen former FDA leaders lambaste claims by the agency’s current vaccine chief
A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a scathing denunciation of an FDA memo to staff that made sweeping claims casting doubt on vaccine safety.
 
A doctor holds a vial of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in Chicago on Aug. 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
A single shot of HPV vaccine may be enough to fight cervical cancer, study finds
A new study suggests a single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer.
 
Christy Morrill, 72, who lost decades of memories to autoimmune encephalitis, holds up a viewfinder with a slide film of himself as a college student while looking through old photographs at his home, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in San Carlos, Calif. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
PHOTO ESSAY: A ‘year of unraveling’ when a man’s immune system hijacked his brain
Sometimes, the immune system runs amok and attacks the organ that makes us “us” — the brain. It’s called autoimmune encephalitis but one California man dubbed it his “year of unraveling.”
 
Christy Morrill, 72, who lost decades of memories to autoimmune encephalitis, holds up a viewfinder with a slide film of himself as a college student, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, at his home in San Carlos, Calif. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
An autoimmune disease stole this man’s memory. Here’s how he’s learning to cope
Sometimes our immune system runs amok and attacks the organ that makes us “us” — the brain. It’s called autoimmune encephalitis and it can appear out of the blue.
 
Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, left, of New York City, who has lupus, runs with fellow campers to hoist another boy into the air during an activity at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PHOTO ESSAY: Summer camp for kids with autoimmune diseases
CLARYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Autoimmune diseases like lupus, myositis and forms of arthritis can strike children, too.
 
Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, plays a game of Gaga Ball with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Kids get diseases like lupus, too. As researchers hunt better treatments, this camp brings joy
It may sound surprising but kids can get diseases like lupus and arthritis, too, when their immune system mistakenly attacks their own body.
 
Dr. Iago Pinal-Fernandez, a staff clinician, poses for a portrait while looking through a telescope in a lab at the National Institutes of Health, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. Pinal-Fernandez studies myositis, a group of muscle-weakening autoimmune diseases. “When I started, nothing was known about the type of autoimmune disease we study. Now finally we’re able to tell patients, ‘You have this disease and this is the mechanism of disease. And this is the reason why we’re treating you – because the disease works in this way.” (AP Photo/David Goldman)
PHOTO ESSAY: Scientists trying to unravel one of the body’s biggest mysteries
A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes autoimmune diseases and how to stop the immune system from attacking you instead of protecting you.
 
Dr. Maximilian Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins University, sits for a portrait in the lab where he's studying some possible new treatments for autoimmune diseases, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Baltimore, Md. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Lifelong drugs for autoimmune diseases don’t work well. Now scientists are trying something new
There’s a new frontier in treating autoimmune diseases. Today’s treatments tamp down the friendly fire but don’t fix what’s causing it.
 
The label for a bottle of melatonin pills is seen in New York on Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
A study questions melatonin use and heart health but don’t lose sleep over it
Don’t lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That’s the message after some scary-sounding reports about a preliminary study involving the sleep-related supplement.
 
Ruth Wilson, whose has lupus, takes her prescription medications and supplements before going to work on Jan. 13, 2025, in Littleton, Mass. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Autoimmune diseases can strike any part of the body, and mostly affect women. Here’s what to know
Autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body – even hijacking the brain — and tens of millions of people.
 
Ruth Wilson, who has lupus, nicknamed the disease of 1,000 faces for its variety of symptoms, watches speakers address the crowd at the Walk with Us to Cure Lupus fundraising event, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
PHOTO ESSAY: One woman’s journey with lupus, the disease of 1,000 faces
Ruth Wilson doesn’t look sick yet “everywhere hurts all the time” – because her immune system is attacking her own body.
 
Ruth Wilson, who has lupus, leaves her monthly lupus-focused IV treatment at UMass Memorial Medical Center, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Disease of 1,000 faces shows how science is tackling immunity’s dark side
It’s one of medicine’s biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.
 
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health prepare to transplant a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man in New York on July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File)
First clinical trial of pig kidney transplants gets underway
The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives.
 
This image provided by Massachusetts General Hospital shows Tim Andrews smiling as he leaves Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Feb. 1, 2025. (Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital via AP, file)
New Hampshire man resumes dialysis after record 271 days living with a pig kidney
A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ’s function declined.
 
Clockmakers Rich Finn, left, and Tom Erb adjust the time zone controllers on a series of clocks that'll be installed at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., at the Electric Time Company, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Medfield, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Here’s what happens to your body when clocks ‘fall back’ an hour
It’s time for most of America to move clocks back on Sunday. Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. at 2 a.m. local time, which means setting your clock back an hour.
 
A healthcare worker prepares a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors
The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients by boosting their immune systems to help fight tumors.
 
This photo combination shows, from left, Fred Ramsdell in a photo provided by Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Osaka University professor Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi, in Suita, near Osaka, western Japan, Oct. 6, 2025 and Mary E. Brunkow in Seattle, Oct. 6, 2025. (Sonoma Biotherapeutics/Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News, Lindsey Wasson via AP)
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about how the body ensures immune cells attack intruders but not our own tissues.
 
A pharmacist gives a patient a flu shot in Miami on Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)
It’s time get a flu vaccination. Here’s who needs one and why
It’s flu vaccine time again. After last winter, when the U.S. saw the highest number of flu-related child deaths in 15 years, pediatricians are urging the public to get them.
 
This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory via AP)
Researchers turn human skin cells into eggs — but not yet usable ones
Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive.
 
President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, during the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump about autism, Tylenol and pregnancy
President Donald Trump has announced his administration is recommending women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless necessary.
 
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listen. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism
President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism.
 
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