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Historian Nancy Bristow talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated American civilians and soldiers during the final year of World War I and beyond. She also explained…

Viewers commented on a new American Medical Association report showing that the death rate among Americans between the ages of 25 and 64 is increasing, driving down U.S. life expectancy for a third…

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing with public health officials on efforts to improve flu vaccines and develop a universal flu vaccine. The witnesses in the…

Tara Copp talked about her recent investigative piece looking at the increase in cancer rates among veterans.

Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention talked about the rise in vaping-related illness and other public health concerns facing the U.S. She spoke via video link…

Health experts discussed the scientific and technological prospects of an effective universal influenza vaccine. Speakers included Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of…

Three students from Classical Scholars school in Mills River, North Carolina, performed in the National History Day competition in College Park, Maryland. Their topic was the March of Dimes…

Public health officials discussed the ongoing measles outbreak at an event hosted the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Big Cities Health Coalition. Two of the panelists presented case…

Actor Victor Garber and nine-year-old Ruby Anderson from Maine were among the witnesses discussing living with type 1 diabetes at a Senate Special Aging Committee hearing. The committee discussed…

This portion of the the third annual Pandemic and Biosecurity Forum included a series of panel discussions focused on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speakers…

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Health held a hearing on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the World Health Organization and local…

Dr. Matt McCarthy talked about his book, Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic, in which he reported on his search for a new antibiotic treatment for superbug bacteria.

Dr. Tia Powell looked at the science behind dementia, the funding for Alzheimer’s research, and how patients with varying degrees of dementia are treated.

Reuters reporter David Randall talked about his book, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague', in which he recounted the efforts of health…

This documentary details the history of the highly contagious virus that causes measles and the development of the measles vaccine in the 1950s and early 1960s. The pharmaceutical company…

Washington Post Live held a series of discussions focused on cancer research and treatment with government officials, lawmakers, health care professionals, advocates and patients. Acting FDA…

Kate Bowler, a Duke Divinity School assistant professor and prosperity gospel scholar, talked about her memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason, on being diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer…

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and evolutionary sociobiologist Thomas Patterson talked about their book, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A…

Amid a nationwide measles outbreak, Washington State House and Senate debate whether to limit when parents can exempt their children from the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine,…

Lawmakers and medical experts discussed pandemics and biosecurity at the third annual Pandemic and Biosecurity Forum. The conference started with keynote remarks by Intelligence Committee…