In 1994, Peter Hotez’s nineteenth-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world’s
This collection of essays, reports, newspaper articles, documents and narratives includes opinions and information from all sides of the case. Doctors describe how feeding tubes work and what roles ex
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. I