Outside the Beltway

Concerns about the Zika Virus are leading some doctors to call for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be moved or postponed.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

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

The numbers on the Ebola outbreak are bad, but they aren’t as bad as had been feared.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

Sobering news from the World Health Organization.

Closing down international air travel won’t stop Ebola from becoming a bigger public health threat.

The last known case of smallpox happened in 1977. Is it time to destroy the virus?

The FDA is declaring war on trans fats. That’s a bad idea on many levels.

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.”

Jim Yong Kim is an impressive man. But he’s got no background in banking, finance, or economics.

Once the province of science fiction, a car that can drive itself is now a reality, thanks to Google and DARPA. The implications are mind boggling.

The task of getting aid to the 20 million victims of Pakistan’s floods may have just gotten a lot more difficult