Disease and Illnesses
Medical Sleuth
To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
February 2006 |
By Tom Shachtman
The Flu Hunter
For years, Robert Webster has been warning of a global influenza outbreak. Now governments worldwide are finally listening to him
January 2006 |
By Michael Rosenwald
Tribal Fever
Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late
May 2005 |
By Landon Y. Jones
Special Delivery
In the 1900s, health officials believed that puncturing supposedly disease-infested mail and then fumigating it slowed the spread of illness
February 2004 |
By Ed Leibowitz
Stopping a Scourge
No one knows if SARS will strike again. But researchers' speedy work halting the epidemic makes a compelling case study of how to combat a deadly virus
September 2003 |
By David Brown
On the Trail of the West Nile Virus
Some scientists race to develop vaccines against the scourge while others probe the possible lingering effects of the mosquito-borne infection.
July 2003 |
By Stephen S. Hall
Mission Impossible?
An international campaign to rid the world of polio has made dazzling progress. But some experts question whether the scourge can ever be eradicated
February 2003 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Betting on Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand beat the odds to write the hit horse-racing saga while fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, a mysterious disorder starting to reveal its secrets
December 2002 |
By Larry Katzenstein
