infectious-disease

It all balances out when Wolowitz's mother ends up in the hospital, and Sheldon accidentally crashes the infectious-disease isolation room.

Mega Buzz: Bones' Sniper Returns, Bree's New Man, and Five-0's Team Shakeup 2011

Thanks to vaccinations, doctors have eliminated measles in the Western Hemisphere, says William Schaffner, an infectious-disease expert at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.

Air travelers may have been exposed to measles 2011

Few studies have had such far-reaching and harmful effects, especially after being so thoroughly discredited, says William Schaffner, an infectious-disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Report linking vaccine to autism 'an elaborate fraud' 2011

Some public health authorities, infectious-disease specialists and national security experts say the time has come to autoclave hundreds of vials of the pathogen held in two high-security government labs in the United States and Russia.

Should last remaining known smallpox virus die? 2011

Few studies have had such far-reaching and harmful effects, especially after being so thoroughly discredited, says William Schaffner, an infectious-disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Report linking vaccine to autism 'an elaborate fraud' 2011

So, I distanced myself, said Ahmed Kilani, an infectious-disease microbiologist at Clongen Labs in Germantown.

Whatever Happened To ... the mysterious disease known as Morgellons Brigid Schulte 2010

"Having a program where you don't have to take interferon…would be a big deal and would be a paradigm shift in the treatment of hepatitis C," said Stacey Rizza , an infectious-disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Gilead's $11 Billion Gambit Ron Winslow 2011

InfluenzaJanuary to March is the height of flu season, but now is the time for everyone 6 months and older to get the flu vaccine, says pediatric infectious-disease specialist Mary Anne Jackson of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Top reasons for school absences, and how to handle them 2011

Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Nozin Nasal Sanitizer To prove the products do any good, it would be necessary to test each one against a placebo during several months in a human study to see if its use reduced the incidence of illness, says infectious-disease specialist J.

Keeping Cold and Flu Germs Out Laura Johannes 2011

Some public health authorities, infectious-disease specialists and national security experts say the time has come to autoclave hundreds of vials of the pathogen held in two high-security government labs in the United States and Russia.

Should last remaining known smallpox virus die? 2011