Karen Weintraub

Feb 7, 2025 | marionstar.com | Karen Weintraub

Since arriving on a Texas dairy farm nearly a year ago, bird flu has caused havoc in the farming industry, leading to millions of dead birds and thousands of sick cows. More than 65 people have also been infected, including one Louisiana resident who died. And America is facing unprecedented egg shortages and skyrocketing grocery prices, as worries about the risks to people mount. Bird flu, also known as H5N1, is a variant of the influenza virus that sickens every winter.

Feb 3, 2025 | usatoday.com | Karen Weintraub

NEW YORK CITY ‒ If records are meant to be broken, Towana Looney is very grateful to be a record-breaker. Looney has now been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own, beating the previous record of 60 days that anyone has survived with an organ from another species. The Gadsen, Alabama, woman has been staying in a rented Manhattan apartment a few miles from NYU Langone Hospital where she received the pig kidney on Nov. 25.

Jan 17, 2025 | autos.yahoo.com | Karen Weintraub

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who inherit it and later in others? Now a pair of scientists at a research institute affiliated with Harvard and MIT believe they've found an answer in the speed at which the genes of these people make mistakes. This result, published Thursday in the journal Cell, isn't just academic.

Jan 16, 2025 | usatoday.com | Karen Weintraub

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‚Äí For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who inherit it and later in others? Now a pair of scientists at a research institute affiliated with Harvard and MIT believe they've found an answer in the speed at which the genes of these people make mistakes. This result, published Thursday in the journal Cell, isn't just academic.

Jan 7, 2025 | courier-journal.com | Karen Weintraub

A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday. The patient, the first in the U.S. to die from bird flu, also known as H5N1, was over 65 and reported to have underlying medical conditions. The person became ill after contact with a combination of a backyard flock and wild birds, the health department said in a news release.