We no longer need to think about smallpox, and by the time those who are children now grow up they will no longer need to think about polio. For the moment, however, it is tenacious. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are three countries where the war is being waged. Recently Syria had to be added. Health…

In a hidden corner of the construction for a metro rail station not far from where I live, 5 or 6 men have organized their equivalent of a living space. They have pillows and blankets and sit there, laugh, talk and drink I’m not sure what. I try to peek through a hole in the…

Several states have been searching, secretively says the BBC, for lethal injection drugs. The 3 drugs combination used in the past has not been available for some time since the manufacturer of a key ingredient, sodium triopental, stopped supplying it. Some states then tried to used Propofol but the German supplier stopped filling orders, warning…