More and more I am in contact with others who have food allergies. It's very challenging at home and out. I belong to a support group, and it has been my lifesaver in many ways, and hopefully others have support, too. Are more people getting food allergies? ...more

March 19, 2009

President Barack Obama accused the Bush administration Saturday of creating a "hazard to public health" by failing to curb food contamination problems, and he announced new leadership and other changes aimed at modernizing food-safety laws. ...more

March 15, 2009

People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans. ...more

October 27, 2008

"Whatever you can say about the Soviet bioweapons scientists," a Bush administration official once told me, "they never killed anyone." ...more

August 21, 2008

Most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic were caused not by the virus alone but by common bacterial infections that overwhelmed victims' weakened immune systems, according to two new studies that could change the strategy for the next pandemic. ...more

August 18, 2008

A leading AIDS expert, a groundbreaking pediatric neurosurgeon and a lawmaker who was the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress are among this year's recipients of the nation's highest civilian award. ...more

June 12, 2008

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a "war on science." ...more

May 12, 2008

The aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph infection responsible for thousands of recent illnesses undermines the body's defenses by causing germ-fighting cells to explode, researchers reported Sunday. ...more

November 12, 2007

New data on an experimental AIDS vaccine that failed to work show volunteers who got the shots were far more likely to get infected with the virus through sex or other risky behavior than those who got dummy shots. ...more

November 8, 2007