A network of compassionate volunteers caring for their terminally ill neighbours is allowing more people in Kerala, India,...
Medicine
Follow humanity’s changing efforts to understand illness and preserve life. These histories examine healers and patients across centuries while revealing how knowledge, belief, institutions, and inequality shaped the practice of medicine.
Upper teeth of a Neanderthal who lived about 40,000 years ago. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg By Dr. Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg...
Photo © iStockphoto.com/champja The rise in recent decades of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid...
By Dr. Jordi Gómez i Prat and Dr. Sheila MF Mendonça de Souza / Jan. 2003 Prat:...
Insulin syringes / Shutterstock By Dr. Israel Hodish, MD, PhD / 02.22.2017 Professor of Endocrinology and Internal...
Millions of people are left dead or disabled by surgical complications each year when one simple piece...
By Dr. Melissa J. Armstrong / 02.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Neurology University of Florida Politicians and policymakers...
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston. Photo...
Surgeons and their patients are finding that virtual reality can relieve the pain and stress of operations...
Premature babies are at high risk of brain damage – but many are too fragile to make...
Lecture by Dr. Frank SnowdenAndrew Downey Orrick Professor of History & History of MedicineYale University Limitations of...
This marble plaque depicts a ‘parturition’, or birthing scene. Such scenes eased the fears of expectant mothers...
Our personality may be shaped by how our brain works, but in fact the shape of our...
Introducing the amendment on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders asked his senate colleagues if they “have the guts...
By Jennifer Delgado Suarez / 01.16.2017 It will probably be happened more than once: you are speaking...
Lecture by Dr. Frank Snowden / 02.01.2010Andrew Downy Orrick Professor History and History of MedicineYale University Smallpox,...
By Kathryn Drury Wagner / 01.14.2017 The Therapeutic Effect of Music In the realm of healing techniques,...
An electroconvulsive therapy machine is seen at an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2012....
The U.S. Senate voted after 1:00am Thursday morning to get the ball rolling on Affordable Care Act...
© Matthew Richardson at Heart Aching, throbbing, searing, excruciating – pain is difficult to describe and impossible...
Photo by Moyan Brenn, Creative Commons The largest-ever smartphone-based study examining the relationship between physical activity and...
By Dr. Zuleyka Zevallos / 02.28.2016 Any time there is an article about vaccine initiatives, a segment...
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with...
Laura Lewis, junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, is the author of a recent paper...
DNA sequencing has defined a new genetic disorder that affects movement, enabling patients with dystonia — a...
The Deaver Wellness Farm at Lankenau Medical Center. Photo courtesy of Lankenau. In an industry usually focused on...
Red Cross volunteers respond to the Great Pandemic, 1918. Headstones mark the city’s deadliest virus By Dr....
By Dr. Jamie Smolen / 12.15.2016 Associate Professor of Medicine University of Florida For many, the holidays...
Professor Richard Gilbertson from the CRUK Cambridge Institute / Photo by Carol Sachs Thirty years ago, Professor...
Antibiotics: a new weapon to fight Parkinson’s? Alina Kupstova/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Patrick Lewis / 12.06.2016 Associate Professor...