Scientist Who Helped Eradicate Smallpox Says U.S. Is Unprepared For Bioterrorism
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...
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...
Scott Thill | Posted 03.25.2012
It may be more of an existential threat than current global pandemics like AIDS or climate change, but it doesn't make it a workable bioweapon.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.17.2012
A shifting global climate pattern could portend a flu pandemic, and possibly an opportunity to stop the virus early, a study suggests. The link, a...
Nathan Wolfe | Posted 03.11.2012
Everyone recognizes the raw power that pandemics have to sweep through human populations and seemingly kill indiscriminately. Yet, given the importance of these events, large questions remain remarkably opaque.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.14.2011
Two out of every three Americans worry about the potential for a global disease outbreak. (Thank you, "Contagion.") Yet, alongside this result fr...
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 12.03.2011
You don't need to look far to find real examples of pandemics and their huge tolls. But some of the deadliest diseases wouldn't be considered the least bit exotic by Hollywood screenwriters or even average Angelenos.
Marshall Fine | Posted 11.08.2011
The first hour of Steven Soderbergh's Contagion is so tense that you can almost forgive the second half for getting bogged down.
Bernard Starr | Posted 09.11.2011
The chief symptom of Posterior Alimentary Canal Syndrome resists any potential cure. Sufferers have their heads up the posterior end of the alimentary canal (also known as the rear end).
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.02.2011
Participant Media, the production powerhouse behind films including "Waiting for Superman," "An Inconvenient Truth," "Good Night and Good Luck," and "...
Bernard Starr | Posted 08.01.2011
Police recently ejected a woman from an Amtrak quiet car after 16 hours of non-stop talking on her cell phone -- a new record for a PACS symptom flare-up.
Posted 06.18.2011
Virus samples will be shared globally in exchange for vaccines produced from them under a landmark deal to improve preparedness for a flu pandemic, ...
Posted 06.15.2011
Drug companies are set to donate vaccines and antivirals to poor countries, and share patented technology under a deal to strengthen defenses agai...
Turnstyle | Posted 05.25.2011
Director Lance Weiler's storytelling project, Pandemic 1.0, takes the ideas of interactivity and collaboration to another level, which has made it one of the most talked about experiences at Sundance.
Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011
Like any society on earth, the United States has to decide how to spend public money. Simple as that: economy, from a Greek word meaning household man...
Kim Cranston | Posted 05.25.2011
What principles might guide us in these increasingly interesting times in which we live, when the fate of our civilizations, if not our very species, may hang in the balance?
Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011
Marvell CTO Nafea Bshara says lack of ISP competition coupled with the lack of government support may reduce broadband speed in the U.S..
Wall Street Journal | BETSY MCKAY and JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN | Posted 11.17.2011
Less than half of the swine-flu vaccine expected to be shipped to doctors, hospitals and clinics in the U.S. this month has been shipped so far. The d...
Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011
World AIDS Day has become a time to reflect on the daunting challenges we face in the battle against this tenacious killer. Although huge strides hav...
David Gray | Posted 11.17.2011
There are many people who are used to going to work when they are a bit under the weather. However, swine flu is changing that equation.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.
Kim Rosen | Posted 11.17.2011
For the last few generations, our nation has managed to marginalize poetry, an art that is and always has been central to the species.
James Altucher | Posted 05.25.2011
We live in a world of nightmares. But understanding these worries -- the myriad ways the world could end -- and hedging against them is the way to turn the fear into greed, the nightmare into a dream.
Posted 05.25.2011
By Sheri Fink, ProPublica This story was produced by ProPublica under a Creative Commons license. With scant public input, state and federal offici...
Larry Brilliant, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
"Epidemiologist gets swine flu" is not as catchy a news headline as "man bites dog" but it is cut from the same ironic cloth. My swine flu was not a lovable affair, it was not a joke, and it was not "mild."
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011
Napolitano can't afford to understate the seriousness of the swine flu, even though America has been abused by politically motivated scare tactics for eight years.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.06.2012