Lauran Neergaard

AP Medical Writer

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Today in Manufacturing Podcast

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David Bennett Jr., right, stands next to his father's hospital bed in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 12, 2022.

Man Who Received 1st Pig Heart Transplant Dies

His family hopes the last-ditch experiment will advance efforts to end the organ shortage.

Thymus tissue for transplant to a pediatric heart patient, Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C., Aug. 16, 2021.

Baby Gets Heart Transplant — with a Twist

The novel technique aimed to help prevent rejection of the new organ.

A nurse prepares a COVID-19 vaccine dose at Children's National Hospital in Washington, Nov. 3, 2021.

Pfizer Asks FDA to Allow COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids Under 5

The very youngest Americans could start receiving shots as early as March.

A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at Reading Area Community College, Reading, Pa., Sept. 14, 2021.

U.S. Opens COVID Boosters to All Adults

And officials took the extra step of urging people 50 and older to seek one.

A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Denver, Dec. 23, 2020.

FDA OKs Mixing COVID Vaccines

Regulators also extended boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

A droplet falls from a syringe after a person was injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I., Dec. 15, 2020.

Pfizer Says Vaccine Works in Kids Ages 5 to 11

The company said it will seek U.S. authorization soon.

Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate health committee hearing on Capitol Hill, May 11, 2021.

FDA Hopes Younger Kids Can Get Shots Soon

The agency's vaccine chief says he is “very, very hopeful” that vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds will be underway by year’s end.

Pharmacy technician Hollie Maloney loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine, March 2, 2021.

FDA Gives Full Approval to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

The agency has never before had so much evidence to judge a shot’s safety.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Edward Chang is reflected in a computer monitor displaying brain scans as he performs surgery at the University of California-San Francisco in 2017.

Device Taps Brain Waves to Help Paralyzed Man Communicate

The technology turned what he intended to say into sentences on a computer screen.

Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass., May 19, 2021.

Moderna Says COVID-19 Shot Works in Kids as Young as 12

Its vaccine could become the second option for that age group in the U.S.

Kizzmekia Corbett at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the NIH in Bethesda, Md., Feb. 11, 2021.

NIH Vaccine Designer Takes Coronavirus Research to Harvard

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead the development of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna.