LGBGT+ communities in the U.S. were well equipped to get residents health and social services early in...
Medicine
Advice on how to deal with the 1918 pandemic will sound familiar to use today. By Dr....
New variants of the COVID-19 virus can be more contagious and cause more severe disease than the...
George Washington knew the horrors of smallpox from personal experience. Health officials are welcoming celebrity endorsements of...
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats in the world. The Big Idea A new...
Different factors contributed to the learned medicine tradition through the more open attitudes of Renaissance humanism. Introduction...
Health research and privacy protections both provide valuable benefits to society, and the two topics are interrelated....
Entities that must follow the HIPAA regulations are called “covered entities.” This doesn’t include everyone. Introduction Most...
HIPAA is widely misunderstood and taken to mean something it doesn’t – and assumed to provide protections...
After settling in Binghamton, Kilmer set to work developing and selling homeopathic remedies. The Bottle This bottle...
The English word pharmacology or pharmacy derives from the Greek word pharmakon, which means both remedy and poison,...
As a newspaper editor, he covered the outbreak of yellow fever; as an historian, he searched for...
He raised donations to pay local doctors to perform the procedure and to pay poor families for...
People have adopted some substance in their quest to stay active and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Among...
Patients struggling with chronic health conditions are dependent on medications for sustaining health and improving their quality...
Exploring the widespread worry in Georgian Britain that immunity came with beastly side effects. By Erica X....
How do vaccines trigger and train the immune system, and what is the role of herd immunity?...
Roman medicine was highly influenced by the Greek medical tradition. Introduction Medicine in ancient Rome combined various techniques...
Dr. Conis’s current research focuses on scientific controversies, science denial, and the public understanding of science. Elena...
Herbs played a major part in ancient Egyptian medicine. By Dr. N. H. AboelsoudProfessor of Pediatrics and...
The best physicians were well schooled in pharmaceutical lore, with an armamentarium of drugs. By Dr. John...
Exploring the wandering life of the marsus and druggist and their ambiguous position within society. By Dr....
Our early ancestors had complex relationships with psychoactive plants. By Dan Reist, Nicole Bodner, and Rielle Capler...
It is not a secret that the way we take care of our minds, bodies, and general...
Lifelong learning is important for all of us. It leads to better job prospects, more fulfilling lives,...
Even though the medical community thoroughly discredited his methods, he was able to continue his activities for...
These widely marketed “cures” first came to prominence during the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain and...
The manuscript was produced around 512 C.E. for the imperial princess Anicia Juliana in Constantinople. By Dr....
The need for trained nurses was heightened — and the work of the sister nurses in the...
Today we talk easily of viruses, but in Edward Jenner’s day they were completely unknown. The time...