

Health Mar 31

How much do we know about COVID-19, the virus spreading misery across the globe? Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss understanding the dynamics of the virus within people it has infected, why some experience much more severe forms…
Arts Mar 18

On the second floor of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, a placard at the end of an exhibit asks a question we all may be thinking right now, in the middle of a global health emergency: What’s next?…
By Joshua Barajas
Health Feb 14

Experts say wild animals can carry unknown viruses and that human contact with them needs to more carefully managed as the world's population grows.
By Sam McNeil, Candice Choi, Associated Press
Health Oct 18

"Dracula" abounds with fascinating references to medicine of the day.
By Dr. Howard Markel
Aug 11

By PBS NewsHour
Pandemics like Zika and Ebola can originate in one continent and quickly spread to another. To stop outbreaks before they start, scientists are trying to identify regions conducive to the development of new disease. One target is southern China, where…
May 28

By Robert Burns, Associated Press
The Army's top general says human error probably was not a factor in the inadvertent shipping of live anthrax to research laboratories.
Mar 24

By Dr. Howard Markel
Robert Koch’s greatest evening unfolded 133 years ago today, when he solved the riddle that had plagued doctors for centuries: what, exactly, caused tuberculosis?…
Oct 18

By Andrew Mach
Just as the 2009 swine flu pandemic drove up trips to the ER by nearly 20 percent even in areas where the illness had still not yet appeared, cold and flu season this year and the height of Ebola in…
Aug 29

By PBS NewsHour
The Ebola virus has now reached a fifth country. Officials announced a Guinean student in Senegal was confirmed to have the disease. Meanwhile, a new report traces the deadly outbreak to a funeral in Guinea near the Sierra Leone border.
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