During the 1989–1991 outbreak, measles was an issue of poverty. Now it’s a personal choice. View this image › Getty Images / Joe Raedle / Via gettyimages.com In response to the current measles outbreak, public health officials and the media have struggled to understand who anti-vaccination parents are. Where do they live? (Orange County.) What […]
Responding to allegations by PETA and four members of Congress, the director of the National Institutes of Health defended the scientific importance of a federal lab’s research on baby monkeys. He also said the lab will stop using a few invasive procedures. View this image › NIH/PETA The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has responded […]