Other infectious diseases

Bacteria without borders
Scientists trace inflammatory ulcerative colitis to failure of immune “peacekeeper”

• Inflammatory bowel disease: a short course
• Trouble at the border

The lessons of oral rehydration therapy
The co-discoverer of a simple solution to a global killer passes all he has learned to public health’s next generation

Prevention: It just makes cents
In the U.S., the polio vaccine saved over $180 billion, says an HSPH study that makes the case for total eradication

Harvard + MIT = the Broad Institute
Home to one of the world’s most advanced genome-sequencing libraries 

Illustration: David Fierstein