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The measles virus can cause serious disease in children by temporarily suppressing their immune systems. This vulnerability was previously thought to…

Epidemics. Throughout history, they have obliterated populations and shattered economies. Crippling the public with fear, epidemics have disrupted…

Class: "Ebola in 2014: The Science, Society and Politics of a Modern Epidemic" Description: This course, offered primarily to juniors and…

Fatima went into labor with her first child at the age of 16. As is custom in her nomadic community in western Sudan, she planned to deliver the baby…

In the midst of the financial crisis in 2009, Alan Krueger and Austan Goolsbee were two of the economists advising President Barack Obama as he…

The United Kingdom's House of Commons recently voted to allow British researchers to pursue a controversial new fertility treatment intended to help…

The intersection of religion and politics has touched many issues from the early twentieth century to present. From divorce to civil rights to…

Ebola is difficult to contract. The disease is not airborne like influenza or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) – a healthy person must come…

China's National People's Congress (NPC) recently ended its annual session, a 10-day event in which nearly 3,000 delegates gather to pass laws,…

The Ebola outbreak that has swept West Africa since 2014 may have cleared the way for a more familiar killer that could claim thousands of more lives…