The World Bank is failing miserably on malaria, like it failed on HIV/AIDS before.

Scott Gottlieb, M.D., reviews Michael Willrich's "Pox:An American History". The book chronicles the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service through governmental intrusion during the historical epidemic of 1898-1903.

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

This study's estimates of the reduction in accidents from a ban on cell phone use while driving are both lower and less certain than previous studies indicate.

Many of the quandaries that plague transplant medicine flow from the need to ration scarce resources.

Eleven Americans die each day because they cannot get a kidney transplant. The best way to provide more kidneys is tocompensate donors.

A bad incentive structure creates a dire shortage.

Except in the rare cases in which indirect abortion is not unfair, the unborn are morally entitled not to be unjustly killed and are entitled to legal protection in order to safeguard this right.