Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
Health
Health encompasses the conditions and choices that shape human well-being across time. Read about changing medical knowledge and the ways societies have responded to illness.
Promotion for safe sex by the Connecticut Department of Health Services / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Condoms...
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
In Ancient Greek texts, the king Lycaon is punished for misdeeds by being turned into a wolf....
Left: Sumerian medical clay tablet – Medical clay tablet from Nippur dated to about 2200 BC is...
The historical analyses of Thomas McKeown regarding global population growth from 1700 to the present stirred controversy,...
The Acropolis at Athens painted by Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) / Public Domain Reviewing short, illustrated case...
In ancient Mesopotamia the gods infused every aspect of daily life and this, of course, extended to health care....
With the rapid pace of vaccine development in recent decades, the historic origins of immunization are often...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner was asked to inoculate an eight-year-old pauper child named James Phipps. By...
Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” / Public Domain By the 5th century BCE, there were attempts to identify...
Dated to the New Kingdom (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE), and specifically to c. 1200 BCE, the text...
The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on...
The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from...
Blessing from the Medicine Man, Howard Terpning®, 2011 / The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Native American concepts of health...
Image by Pablo Blasberg As daylight saving time looms, researcher sheds light on health effects of not...
As many as 70 million Americans may not be getting enough sleep. Men get fewer hours of...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...
Teeth fossils with evidence of dental lesions from Australopithecus africanus. Ian Towle, Author provided Prehistoric humans and their predecessors may have had a very different...
Bloodletting was treatment for infection in the past. Wellcome Library, London, CC BY While some ancient therapies proved effective enough...
Scene from frontispiece to EPB/47966/A: Jane Sharp, The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifry improv’d...
Just five more minutes … can a coffee before a nap really help you pay back your...
Many reasons that weren’t explored may account for the findings that women who drank coffee decreased their...
Nobuhiro Asada/Shutterstock.com A new analysis shows that coffee is associated with a host of positive health effects. By Dr. Robin Poole / 11.22.2017 Specialist...
Coffee’s usefulness doesn’t have to end here. Yanadhorn/Shutterstock.com Plenty of cafes these days will let you take home...
What will it take to finish polio off in the last three countries where it persists? AP Photo/B.K....
A prisoner looks out a window on March 26, 2015, from Zhdanivskaya prison in Ukraine, were TB...
Nurse B.K. Morris gives a flu shot to Winifred Quinn during a press event on the flu...
By (left-to-right) Dr. Gerardo Chowell, Dr. Cecile Viboud, and Dr. Lone Simonsen / 03.05.2018 Chowell: Professor...