Shelby Lum

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  • Jake Heinrichs watches television with his 3-year-old son, Sam, while his wife, Rachel Chavkin, works during his infusion treatment with an experimental anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drug in New York, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)Health

    Researchers may have found a drug that could delay Alzheimer’s symptoms. It’s funding is caught up in Trump administration delays

    By The Associated Press, Shelby Lum, and others
  • Police restrain a man on the sidewalkPolitics

    Forced sedative injections are a hidden way many fatal police encounters end: ‘Why did they give him an animal tranquilizer?’

    By Ryan J. Foley, Carla K. Johnson, and others
  • Mary Miller-Duffy speaks with Dr. Robert Montgomery in the NYU Langone Health medical center in New York on Aug. 10, 2023. Montgomery regularly calls Miller-Duffy and her wife with updates with the research involving her brother’s body. “I’m in awe of someone who can make a decision like that at, you know, one of the worst moments in their lives and really think about … humanity,” he says. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)Health

    Doctor convinced animal parts are needed to meet demand for organ transplants ‘in awe’ of potentially game-changing decision to donate man’s body for research

    By Lauran Neergaard, Shelby Lum, and others