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This past week, I was jolted out of my chair by news that a Pfizer-led group plans to buy access to patient data in hospitals . My initial reaction was anger, on a variety of levels: as a researcher, as one who is increasingly wary of the reach of huge corporations, and as an individual

One hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper s burn. The scale as you can see on the widely used chart to the left puts sweet bell peppers at the zero mark and the blistering habanero at up to 350,000 Scoville Units

At work in a biosafety level-4 lab. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectius Disease A workplace accident might mean a paper cut or spilled coffee for many--or even loss of life or limb for others. For a select few scientists, however, a little slipup on the job could release a deadly virus or toxin into the environment

Most of us omnivores eschew turkey tendons, the elastic strands that get in the way of a forkful of pure dark- or light-meat delight. [More]

The ongoing bedbug epidemic has been a pain--if not full-on pestilence--for those infested and for those in constant terror of becoming so. [More]

Palestine has grabbed the lion’s share of attention at the U.N. [More]

One of my guilty pleasures in this run-up to the next U.S. [More]

For many years I lived in fear of my allergies. [More]

By now, you’re probably aware of the hype over a vaccine associated with these three letters: HPV. [More]

Text by Jeanne Garbarino, animation and images by Perrin Ireland.

The market for at least one class of vital drug seems to have gone haywire.

MALTA--Efforts to create a universal flu vaccine, one that would do away with the annual reformulations, is a hot topic these days in the infectious disease community.

First there were glow-in-the-dark fish, then rats, rabbits, insects, even pigs. [More]

MALTA--Coming down with the flu--and slowly recovering from it--might seem straight forward enough. [More]

The above question was posed by Vincent M. [More]