Jerome Hauer, acting assistant secretary for public health emergency preparedness at HHS, said that the proposed compensation program would provide health care workers with the "level of comfort they ...

A federal initiative launched in 2003 to vaccinate healthcare workers against smallpox reached only a fraction of the people it sought. But veterans of the effort say elements of the Bush ...

With little fanfare, the Bush administration on Friday issued the final regulation that lays out how healthcare workers who become ill because of smallpox vaccinations can receive financial ...

A senior Bush administration health official and a critic are publicly debating a pending government decision on whether to vaccinate the U.S. population against smallpox. An expert advisory panel, ...

David Williams of The Los Angeles Times has uncovered a $433 million dollar government contract to purchase a smallpox anti-viral drug that may, or may not, be necessary in the case of a bioterrorist ...

Reporting from Washington — Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed ...

Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about healthcare. Obama’s smallpox vaccine controversy. The Obama administration has apparently been pushing to buy an experimental ...

Top health officials in the Biden administration are weighing whether to save vaccine doses that could be used to fight monkeypox for a potential future smallpox outbreak, according to two people with ...

Scientists last week discovered several vials of smallpox — one of the deadliest diseases known to man — in an unused storage room at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., according to ...

With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever drug to treat smallpox, a disease that no longer exists. It’s a just-in-case decision, made to ensure that there is a drug to treat people ...

"You have smallpox," are three words that you never want to hear, regardless of whether the "you" is you or any other human being. As I wrote previously for Forbes, the last natural case of smallpox ...