Reviewing "The Myth of The Paperless Office" for the New Yorker in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell argued that if the computer had come first, and paper didn't exist, someone would have had to invent it.  Paper, it turns out, is a lot more useful than we typically appreciate.

Ernst R. Berndt and Anjli C. Warner discuss their new book, U.S. Markets for Vaccines: Characteristics, Case Studies, and Controversies.

While the world stands transfixed by the specter of a pandemic flu, a very different threat, bioterrorism, remains largely unaddressed.

America is currently dependent on a single plant located in England for some of its most important vaccines.

AIDS claims more victims every year. Sooner or later it will take hold of China and India.

The proliferation of fake drugs is one of the greatest dangers facing India today, but the Indian government is touting a new study that is little more than a whitewash of this crucial problem.

The development of antivirals for pandemic flu provides important insights into the pharmaceutical industry's ability to advance public health.

The medical profession has suffered some serious self-inflicted wounds, and a new book by Carl Elliott focuses on how he thinks medicine has gone wrong but is short on solutions.