The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has released its annual letter, outlining goals for the coming year. What’s on the list? Getting rid of polio, once and for all. Vaccines reduced the disease in the U.S. by 99 percent, but it still erupts in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
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Scientists have firmly established that childhood vaccines do not cause autism, but many people still choose not to vaccinate their kids. Writer Seth Mnookin talks to Brooke about why vaccinations are still down, two years after an investigation that completely discredited the anti-vaccine movement’s strongest study.
Italian archaeologists say theyve found the ruins of a shrine celebrated by the ancients as that gateway to hell or Plutos Gate in southwestern Turkey The temple was built on top of a cave that e