Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Professor Harper is a historian of the ancient world whose ...

In 1992, a blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the Institute of Medicine published “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Human Health in the United States.” The report was a broadside aimed at the ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Stephanie Thompson compiled this month’s selections.

Every year there seems to be a novel deadly disease in the news: Hantavirus, Ebola, West Nile virus, SARS, H5N1. Although they slip out of the headlines, these very scary problems still persist and ...

Roughly 5½ million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, a disease that ravages sufferers’ memories and, ultimately, stops their bodies from performing basic functions. There’s no cure, and not much ...

If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s, you know: the disease not only robs people of memories and their very essence, but the ability to connect with family and friends, too. What if something as ...