Science – Page 52 – People's World

Audiences test positive for “Contagion”

September 20, 2011 By Blake Skylar

Outside of zombie fiction, viral outbreaks are a theme rarely explored in film. "Contagion" changed that, and director Roland Emmerich ought to take a few steps back - because this is the precursor to the next...

After encounter with Perry, Bachmann feels HPV sting

September 16, 2011 By Teresa Albano

A doctor is challenging Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann's wild claims that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation.

With walruses on thin ice, Shell pursues Arctic drilling

September 2, 2011 By Blake Skylar

As global warming threatens the wellbeing of Alaskan walruses, the government has exacerbated the issue.

The horror in Guatemala

September 2, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

We today should be as angry and indignant as if this had happened yesterday; if we are not, it could happen again.

Drug industry sells misleading ads – to doctors

September 2, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

82 percent of the ads placed by drug companies in medical journals violate the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on truthfulness and risk disclosure.