Outside the Beltway

Thanks to anti-vaccination activists spreading false propaganda, measles cases are hitting record highs among the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota.

Big news in the war against a horrible virus.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to be looking for that elusive second act in American politics.

Vaccination has eliminated a disease that used to be a serious threat from the Americas.

Yet another study has found no link between autism and childhood vaccines. However, that’s unlikely to mean the end of the anti-vaccination movement.

The Disneyland measles outbreak wasn’t enough to overcome anti-vaccine forces.

Australia has an interesting new idea about how to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.

(Plus an amusing video).

The debate over whether kids need to be vaccinated against communicable diseases baffles me.

Mandatory quarantines are a massive violation of personal liberty. We ought to be careful in how, when, and why we impose them and who they are directed toward.

A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.

Pseudoscience and hysteria have damaged public health.

The anti-vaccination movement has earned a dubious achievement, the return of a disease that was effectively eradicated 15 years ago.

Can Rick Perry bounce back from the epic disaster of his 2012 campaign?

Two experts debate the topic, demonstrating how little we really know.

Could Rick Perry recover from his disastrous 2012 campaign to become a viable candidate?

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

Executive summary: She’s a kook unfit to serve as dog catcher, much less leader of the free world.

Is there another explanation for Michele Bachmann’s decision to keep bringing Rick Perry’s HPV vaccine order up?

The Hoover Institution’s Henry I. Miller, MD takes to National Review to take on the subject of “Gardasil and the GOP.”

Shocking news, I know.

The Texas Governor was taking it from all sides at last night’s Tea Party Debate.

Rick Perry has walked back his support for mandatory HPV vaccination but the broader issue still remains.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

So the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive in Pakistan in an attempt to get bin Laden family DNA. What could possibly go wrong?