A virologist reflects on the achievements of this visionary scientist. Introduction Some of the greatest scientific discoveries...
Medicine
Explore the history of medicine from ancient healing practices to modern breakthroughs — stories of science, struggle, and survival.
Cancer patients and the Medicare program are currently being gouged by cancer drug manufacturers. Major pharmaceutical companies...
Polio vaccines have been a massive public health victory in the U.S. Introduction “Got Polio? Me neither....
Half the new drugs hitting the market cost more than $220,000, while Big Pharma rakes in our...
Swallowing food and drinks is so effortless for most people that we only think about it once...
Studies suggest Tesamorelin, which may act as a GHRH analog, may have the same properties as GHRH...
Exploring the use and adaptation of the Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers....
We describe illness through our senses. But what if the signs of your illness are invisible to...
Sequah wore a gold chain, a head-torch, and brandished the tools of his dubious trade. Introduction Few...
Visual representations of pain in Anglo-American medical and surgical texts. Pain is a phantom, a spectre that...
U.S. pharmaceutical companies deploy anticompetitive schemes to juice their profits and keep prices high. The U.S. pharmaceutical...
The field of pharmacy has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, thanks to rapid advancements in...
Pyschonauts who opened the door to an invisible dimension of mind and suffered Promethean consequences. This article,...
It is indeed an “abortion pill” — but it also plays other important roles in people’s lives....
The magical moment when early brain pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal saw a brain cell for the...
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common condition that affects the nerves in the wrist and many ask,...
When the womb began to appear in printed images during the 16th century, it was understood through...
Care of preterm babies over the last 200 years, from the heated Victorian heated glass boxes to...
Zoo animals exerted a far greater influence on medical knowledge and practice than historians have previously realized....
Medicine works better when the treatments are tailored to fit each individual person’s biology and history. Its...
Exploring the perennial issues sex presents and how medieval societies dealt with them. While total abstinence for...
During the late 1660s in Paris, transfusing the blood of calves and lambs into human veins promised...
During World War II, as casualties mounted, the need for blood increased. Charles Richard Drew (June 3,...
Modern medicine has come a long way since its beginnings circa 8 BCE in Egypt. Over the...
A one-time vaccine protecting against all variants could give humanity a leg up. Introduction To everything there...
Companies can delay the creation of generic versions of a drug by obtaining additional patents based on...
Physicians in Mesopotamia were believed to simply be the agents through which deities worked. Introduction In ancient Mesopotamia,...
“Australia’s policy change is one that every country should consider.” After decades of criminalization, Australia’s government said...
From the earliest times, treatments involved incantations, invoking the gods , and the use of magical herbs,...
In the second century, Origen wrote, “For those who are adorned with religion use physicians as servants...