How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?
Philip Landrigan tracks how dangers like the WTC can cause problems like ADD. 04.25.2008
Whatever Happened To... Avian Flu?
“We are going to have another pandemic. It will occur.” 03.04.2008
35. First New Class Of HIV Drugs in 10 Years
12.28.2007
Why Is the HPV Vaccine So Expensive?
Good for the cervix, rough on the pocketbook 06.11.2007
Marburg and Ebola Vaccine
Army scientists could rout bioterror attack. 05.01.2006
The Year in Science: Epidemiology
Problems with the new flu vaccine, and the American robin harbors the West Nile virus. 01.08.2006
Can Gold Stop Avian Flu?
Can Gold Stop Avian Flu? 10.24.2005
Science Takes On Supersize
Science Takes On Supersize 09.09.2005
Medicine
01.02.2004
Vital Signs
A child's disease rears up against adults as their vaccinations wear thin 11.08.2003
Here, Eat This Vaccine
08.01.2003
How Nature Brews a New Strain of Flu
07.01.2003
Autism's Source: It's Not the Shot
02.01.2003
A Shot in the Woods
10.01.1999
Killer Pox in the Congo
The last documented case of smallpox occurred in 1977. Now a deadly kin of the virus is spreading out of the forest and into villages. by Wendy Orent 10.01.1999
Site-Specific Vaccines
09.01.1999
Works in Progress
You'll get no kick from cocaine if you take this new vaccine 06.01.1999
Last Days of the Wonder Drugs
Years of overconfidence have made us vulnerable. Now, in the deadly arms race between people and bacteria, the bugs are winning. 11.01.1998
Microneedles
10.01.1998
Vegetable Vaccines
09.01.1998
Cavity Vaccine
08.01.1998
Malarial Dreams
Malaria kills 2.7 million people each year, most of them children. As a new generation of vaccines begin clinical trials, researchers wonder if they've finally got this killer beat. 03.01.1998
The Dream Vaccine
The world craves an effective, risk-free vaccine against recalcitrant foes like AIDS and malaria. Creating mock infections with tiny rings of bacterial DNA may be the answer. 09.01.1997
Building Better Mosquitoes
09.01.1996
A Shot in the Dark
The world's first large-scale AIDS vaccine trial will soon begin in Thailand. 06.01.1996
A Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer
07.01.1995
New Victories in an Old War
06.01.1993