Several European nations are turning away from vaccination and are now spreading disease.

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.

A speculative study about the relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet was retracted today for having numerous flaws and insufficient data within it.

The vaccine market has long been dominated by a public health community determined to provide mass vaccination at very low prices. The market has also been plagued by alarming shortages: the flu vaccine in the 2003-2004 flu season and childhood vaccines several times in recent years. At this conference, four...

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...

This volume offers a balanced and comprehensive snapshot of the changing landscape for vaccine markets.

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

Global health depends as much on the participation of people in impoverished countries as it does on philanthropic Western donors.