Some medical discoveries fade as they settle into history. Others glow brightly. Here’s a little quiz for you. The poliomyelitis virus was a nasty crippler and killer that terrorized the world until the mid-1950s. Which of the following won the Nobel Prize for their work on the polio virus? John […]

This piece is a bit different from others I’ve written here. I wrote this one years ago and published it in the Kansas City Star. I dug out a clipping of it today, retyped it with minimal changes (it originally was written with a typewriter), and here it is, an […]