The Plague at Ashdod, by Nicolas Poussin / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The word influenza is derived from the...
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By Dr. Gabrielle Chapman / 06.23.2015 Associate Dean, Graduate School Syracuse University In September 1955 at the...
A horse-drawn Vancouver General Hospital ambulance / City of Vancouver Archives, Public Domain The story of an amazing man...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...
Kunstmuseum St Gallen/Wikimedia Commons If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for...
Bloodletting was treatment for infection in the past. Wellcome Library, London, CC BY While some ancient therapies proved effective enough...
Drawn directly from the flesh. Public Domain Review/Flickr, CC BY-SA By Dr. Richard Gunderman / 12.31.2014 Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts,...
Not the one we have fixed in our imaginations. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer ofrationality and fount of eternal...
A baby with an encephalocele. Photograph by F.A. Hudson, 1869. Wellcome Library reference no. 34335i.3. By Dr. William...
The Battle of Waterloo, by William Sadler / Wikimedia Commons By Julia Nurse / 06.18.2015 Collections Researcher...
By Dr. Jane Draycott / 05.17.2017 Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Classics: Ancient Science and...
Dr Cornelius Herz escapes extradition on the ground that he has a terminal illness, and lives happily...
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...
Researchers from the UK & Japan have identified how the brain’s natural painkilling system could be used...
Entrance to Boerhaave Museum, Leiden, Netherlands / Photo by Erik Zachte, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. H.G. (Rina) Knoeff /...
Compiled by Jenny Goellnitz An Introduction to Civil War Medicine During the 1860s, doctors had yet to...
Trapped by the Cold War and scarred after a failed revolution, Hungary fought one of its greatest...
A page from the journal of Henry Walsh Mahon showing the effects of scurvy, from his time...
Poseidon taking chocolate from Mexico to Europe, a detail from the frontispiece to Chocolata Inda by Antonio Colmenero de...
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Elisa Lazarri / 01.16.2018 Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Sciences Cornell University “Rampant” and “elderly”...
Map of Northern France from Calais in the north to Paris in the south in 1811. Image...
Portrait of Vesalius featured in De Humani Corporis Fabrica / U.S. National Library of Medicine City streets, a...
Denis Burkitt / Wellcome Library Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-1993), while posted at the Mulago Hospital and Makerere Medical...
Image of banking from a medieval illuminated manuscript By Robert Naranjo / 01.10.2008 Modern banking has its...
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus...
In the age of social media, fears and rumors about outbreaks and epidemics can quickly spread out...
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Photo from Max Pixel By Dolly Stolze / 10.31.2017 For me, zombies are probably the scariest of the...
At Radcliffe’s Science Symposium, “Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett said there is need...