Britain has been successful at preventing another major terrorist attack since the suicide attacks in London on July 7, 2005, but there is an ongoing debate in Britain about amending, or doing away with altogether, some of the counterterrorism authorities that have been put on the books since 2005.

If the British public wants "greater assurance against the possibility of attacks,""some increase in intrusive activity by the UK's intelligence and security Agencies is the inevitable consequence."

The FBI during the Obama Administration has stopped many would-be attacks, but it is still a work in progress.

The recent death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko brings new questions about Russian president Vladmir Putin and hisgovernment.

I am pleased to hear, at last, an official response from the D.C. government to my series on our city"s infant mortality problem.

Review of The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character, by Daniel Kevles.

James R. Lilley reviews Martin Booth's The Dragon Syndicates.

In a large population of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction, we found significant treatment differences but no significant incremental mortality benefit associated with treatment by cardiologists.