Dr Lundberg offers an atypically celebratory holiday message about the world's first free, for-credit university, NextGenU.

Dr Paul Auwaerter discusses California's hepatitis A outbreak and the challenges of testing to avoid false-positives.

The symptoms are nonspecific, so patient history is critical to the identification of brucellosis.

Travelers need to be educated about their risks and decide which they are willing to accept.

These days, the only limiting parameter to gun ownership seems to be how many people you wish to kill in a brief time, says Dr Lundberg.

Dr JoAnn Manson comments on a recent study revealing that gestational diabetes is like a window into a woman's future risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Oncologists fail to recommend HPV vaccination to young cancer survivors, even though it is a safe and effective cancer prevention strategy.

Controversy spurred by comments from Georgia state representative Dr Betty Price on HIV is addressed by Dr Paul Sax.

A recent study relates future risk to current risk for advanced colorectal cancer. Dr Kerr suggests adding genetic testing to further improve diagnosis.

Drs Gayatri Acharya, Michael Ackerman, and Peter Noseworthy discuss the importance of investigating sudden deaths in light of new research showing that many presumed sudden cardiac deaths are not cardiac in origin.