Thanks To Vaccination, Rubella Has Been Eliminated From The Western Hemisphere
Vaccination has eliminated a disease that used to be a serious threat from the Americas.
Worldwide Ebola Cases Top 16,000 With 7,000 Dead, But There Is Some Good News
The numbers on the Ebola outbreak are bad, but they aren’t as bad as had been feared.
Problems With The Response To Ebola, And A Little Perspective
We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.
Banning Air Travel Is The Wrong Response To The Ebola Outbreak
Closing down international air travel won’t stop Ebola from becoming a bigger public health threat.
Should We Destroy The Smallpox Virus, Or Save It?
The last known case of smallpox happened in 1977. Is it time to destroy the virus?
The F.D.A.’s Misplaced War On Trans Fats
The FDA is declaring war on trans fats. That’s a bad idea on many levels.
CIA Vaccine Plot Makes Vaccinations Harder; Who Could Have Known?
CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”
Obama’s Odd Choice for World Bank President
Jim Yong Kim is an impressive man. But he’s got no background in banking, finance, or economics.
Google’s Self-Driving Car
Once the province of science fiction, a car that can drive itself is now a reality, thanks to Google and DARPA. The implications are mind boggling.
Taliban Threatening Pakistani Flood Aid
The task of getting aid to the 20 million victims of Pakistan’s floods may have just gotten a lot more difficult
