An article in Bloomberg News poses the question “Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer or other serious diseases, even if they don’t request the information?” A team of ethicists explained that...

The CDC reports that last year had the most West Nile virus deaths. In 2012, there were 286 deaths, two more than the record high in 2002. “Last summer’s outbreak likely resulted from many factors, including higher-than-normal temperatures that influenced mosquito and bird abundance, the replication of...

While there is no FDA approved human vaccine available for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, a new study in The Lancet investigates “the safety and immunogenicity of adjuvanted and non-adjuvanted vaccines containing protective epitopes from Borrelia species outer surface...