Medicine
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
Stem Cell Pioneers
Despite federal opposition to embryonic stem cell research, the promise of medical benefits, academic freedom and profits in California is luring scientists to the field
December 2005 |
By Jon Cohen
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson
Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
November 01, 2005 |
By Robin Marantz Henig
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
Conquering Polio
Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines
April 2005 |
By Jeffrey Kluger
Medicine from the Sea
From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
May 01, 2004 |
By Kevin Krajick
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
Prize Fight
Raymond Damadian refuses to take his failure to win a Nobel Prize, for a prototype MRI machine, lying down
December 2003 |
By Rick Weiss
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
Book Excerpt: Supergerm Warfare
Dragon's drool, frog's glands and shark's stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria
October 2002 |
By Michael Shnayerson and Mark J. Plotkin
Race for a Remedy
Retired from the track, thoroughbred First Flight served as a "factory" to produce botulism antitoxin
December 2000 |
By Carolyn H. Crowley
The Return of the Phage
As deadly bacteria increasingly resist antibiotics, researchers try to improve a World War I era weapon
October 2000 |
By Julie Wakefield
The "Indomitable" MRI
Raymond Damadian's medical imaging machine set off a revolution but not without controversy
June 2000 |
By Julie Wakefield
Help is on the Way
Combine the power of nature, animal companionship and music, and you have a recipe for healing
July 1999 |
By John P. Wiley, Jr.
Ailing? Just Add Cells
Now we can grow the cells from which all others derive, but ethical questions are involved
January 01, 1999 |
By John P. Wiley, Jr.
