The New York Medical College is making major investments in its Valhalla facility, hoping to become a leader in bioterrorism and disaster training. The college unveiled the new center devoted to ...

The Defense Department is launching a national strategy to defend against biological attacks and is testing a wide range of technologies in Washington and Albuquerque, N.M., to spot biological attacks ...

Local emergency management officials hooked up with their counterparts from around the nation by satellite Thursday to discuss how to handle a bioterrorism attack. Participants in the event, hosted at ...

Minnesota is better prepared than most states to respond to a bioterrorism attack -- but short of where public health officials think it should be. Minnesota's and the nation's ability to cope with a ...

GALVESTON -- Backed by other medical centers in Texas and across the Southwest, the University of Texas Medical Branch is competing to become one of the biggest players in the nation's homeland ...

There, scientists will spend their days simulating the unthinkable: bioterrorism attacks in the form of lethal anthrax spores rendered as wispy powders that can drift for miles on a summer breeze, or ...

The White House wanted to know: How much safer are Americans today than they were on October 4, 2001? That was the day when a photo editor in Florida became the first reported case of inhalation ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Money originally cut from the state health department's budget has been restored to help fund Missouri's preparation for bioterrorism attacks. The Department of Health and ...

NEW YORK -- Public health officials have developed an odd interest lately in the mundane and arcane. Epidemiologists are tracking orange juice sales at the local Safeway and poring over school ...

Given that funding for syndromic surveillance clearly emanates from a desire to be able to detect and respond more promptly to a future bioterrorist event than would otherwise be possible, a key ...

The circumstances associated with the potential use of biological agents for terrorism are unlike those associated with conventional attacks. For example, the detection of an attack may not be ...