If terrorists exposed your hometown to a deadly virus, which would you want: a vaccine that prevents infection or a drug that effectively treats it after a person has become ill?

The president's ability to rapidly deploy a series of bioweapons sensors provides evidence why the development of appropriate antidotes could take much longer.

The best new drugs come out of entrepreneurial companies looking for profits.

America's "underclass," that formless entity that baffles social workers and politicians, is the country's continual cloud on the horizon, welfare experts said Wednesday.

Transparency is the best way to deal with tainted food from China and elsewhere.

Banning pesticides may be an over-reaction and can mean the world's poor stay hungry.

Congress seems increasingly intent on usurping the judgment of doctors. This will hit the poor especially hard.

The number of food-borne illness outbreaks has not been increasing. Food-safety agencies have been getting worse at identifying the causes of outbreaks.