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Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health comments on the President Bush’s smallpox vaccination plan in an editorial published in the December 19, 2002 edition of the Baltimore Sun.

The same scientific advances in biotechnology, genetics, and medicine that are intended to improve life could also be used to develop biological weapons. Reseachers call this the Persephone effect.

The December issue of the International National Journal of Parasitology is dedicated to work presented at the inaugural symposium of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute held in January 2002.

Patients with severe leg injuries often face a difficult choice of whether to have multiple operations to repair their damaged limb or undergo amputation. A new study finds that patients have similar outcomes regardless of the treatment.