The transformation of “snake oil” into a term of ridicule belongs not to the medieval period but...
Medicine
Explore the history of medicine from ancient healing practices to modern breakthroughs — stories of science, struggle, and survival.
Various online guides, some aimed at parents of autistic children, recommend a shot-glass-size dose, sometimes given multiple...
Healthcare organizations are always searching for solutions that make communication with patients better. Interactive voice response (IVR)...
Linda Hazzard’s career demonstrates how pseudoscientific authority can flourish when social anxiety, regulatory weakness, and charismatic persuasion...
To accurately gauge a vaccine’s risks, it is also crucial to compare its side effects with the...
The history of the Black Angels reveals how racial inequality, gendered labor, and medical innovation intersected within...
The documented decline in trust across multiple national polls reflects a pivotal shift in how Americans view...
Hernias, a common medical condition where an organ pushes through an opening in the muscle or tissue...
Compiled in the seventh century BCE for the Library of Ashurbanipal, the NME transformed a diverse body...
Decades of research, including large-scale studies published in JAMA and statements from the NIH, have consistently found...
Kennedy’s claims about antidepressants illustrate how easily a sliver of truth can be stretched into a sweeping,...
Twenty Nazi physicians and three administrators were tried for committing horrible acts. By Dr. George J. AnnasDirector...
When Fleming looked upon his Petri dish in 1928 and saw the death of bacteria near a...
Powell continued to practice medicine as a civilian. More than 180,000 African Americans—some free born, some escaped...
The barber-surgeon was at once despised and sought after, a liminal figure who embodied the blurred boundaries...
The challenge will be balancing the excitement of their potential with the meticulous work of proving their...
By the close of the nineteenth century, prosthetics had moved from artisanal oddities to standardized commodities. They...
Many think that the history of medicine lies entirely in the West. That is really only part...
University educated physicians were only a small minority of all medical professionals and healers. Introduction Marquess of...
It shook assumptions, invited new models, and reminded early sixteenth-century Europeans that life itself (breath, motion, sound)...
When a virus as familiar as influenza can trigger brain damage in otherwise healthy children, the line...
At the federal level, some infectious disease experts suggested there were other, larger challenges afoot, such as...
To historicize vaccine resistance is not to legitimize it but instead to understand its roots. From the...
“These individuals have already taken steps to upend decades of scientific research and vaccine policy, threatening the...
Modern medicine has its fair share of jaw-dropping innovations—robotic surgeries, gene editing, AI diagnostics. But what if...
To prevent catching the plague, the WHO recommends taking precautions against flea bites and avoiding handling animal...
The moment we believe the war is won, the pathogens remind us that it never truly ends;...
The sound of pertussis, that strangled gasp for air, is the voice of a disease we were...
Functional medicine’s vocabulary is dressed in scientific language. But language is not substance. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic...
It is a calculated falsehood with roots in fraud and branches in fear. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic...