Chili's restaurant took a public position backing an organization whose belief is that vaccines cause autism. Do companies know enough about science to take such a stand?

Dr. Paul Sax considers how the high cost of sofosbuvir, simeprevir, and other potentially curative agents might affect their use in patients with HCV genotype 1 infection.

Dengue is often misdiagnosed as malaria, and the result can be fatal for the patient. Learn more here about distribution, diagnosis, and treatment.

Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric J. Topol, MD, talks with Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD, about his career as a researcher and doctor, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and the topic for his next book.

A percentage of doctors have begun selling vitamins and nutritional supplements as an ancillary service that they offer. Bioethicist Art Caplan says this is not necessarily a good move.

Malaria is still with us in this age of rapid global travel. Prevention is best, but when infection occurs, rapid diagnosis and treatment can save lives.

The idea that varicella vaccination beginning in 1996 is the cause of an increase in shingles cases is not supported by the evidence.

A drug to treat drug-resistant TB is a welcome advance, but there are important caveats to its use.

What code of conduct applies to a physician who becomes a politician, journalist, or TV personality hawking medical miracles?

ID specialists need the latest on emerging and reemerging infections, to provide care and to offer consultations. Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, offers the latest on 5 (old and new) viruses active now.