President Barack Obama's administration refused a request from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to position a large cache of medical supplies in his city in...

WASHINGTON -- Nearly four years after a congressionally mandated commission warned that bioterrorism poses the greatest threat to the nation, the form...

One of the nation's preeminent scientists is speaking out for the first time about what he says is the government's failure to coordinate preparations...

WASHINGTON -- The good news first. Government homeland security agencies are moving toward a more rational, risk-based system of protection. Now th...

Since September 11 and anthrax, we've released the "Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism" in partnership with...

The Army scientist believed responsible for the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and crippled mail delivery in parts of the country...

There has been much discussion as to how Congress and the president should ensure that the U.S. is safe from a bioterrorist attack. But there has been relatively little discussion in comparison as to how we would respond if an attack did occur.

Biological weapons for the foreseeable future are far more easily stolen than made. And there are already institutionalized measured in place to address this. But they will need to be strengthened.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to unveil a new plan for a better and quicker response to bioterrori...

Whether the threat is from naturally occurring disease or bioterrorism, the United States needs to be able to produce vaccines and other medicines faster and less expensively.

The dangers posed by biolabs often fly under the radar, but that may be changing. The public would do well to question the knee-jerk "security at all costs" policy of the federal government.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan commission is asserting the country should expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or biological weapons sometime in t...

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi _ home to powerful U.S. lawmak...

Our "reason" for developing an arsenal of biological weapons is that the US needs to learn how to prevent attacks from deranged outsiders. Now we have another reminder that the enemy may be us.