Maurice Hilleman's remarkable period of industrial scientific research yielded the most cost-effective medicines ever made.

Paul A. Offit, M.D., is a rare medical academic. A pediatrician and a central figure in child vaccination policy, he also has an outstanding record in vaccine research and development (including work on the recently approved Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer). His latest book, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat...

Few controversies in modern medicine are as emotionally charged as the one over the causes of autism and its possible cures. Journalists, celebrities, and a few medical researchers have claimed that some long-used vaccines cause autism and that various substances and procedures can cure it.

Wading into this controversy is...