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Besides terrible plagues and epidemics that seemed to spring out of nowhere with alarming regularity, there were...
Though it may seem like CBD is something completely new, nothing could be further from the truth....
Aborigines were hunter gatherers – not cultivators – so there was little intentional interference with natural selection...
Having a healthy kitchen is so important. This is something that everyone is talking about, even in...
He had to deal with critics like Walter Winchell, who warned, “It may be a killer.” It...
Franciscan nuns, physicians, anesthesiologists, and social workers helped created a pathbreaking medical center. Several years ago, a...
Examining popular medical texts and their circulation before 1200. Introduction How did early medieval people treat illnesses...
An anthropologist works in American Samoa, taking advantage of the island’s longstanding tattoo culture to tease out...
Looking at a history of mental illness from the Stone Age to the 20th century. References to...
In this period, hospitals preserved both the symbolic and material link to the Church and religion, based...
Treatments became more well known, and surgery became more sophisticated. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Roman medicine was...
In the United States, 46.4 percent of adults will experience a mental illness at some point during their life....
People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in...
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral...
In the years after WWII, America had two great fears: communism, and polio. By Amanda McGowanHistorian For...
The armamentarium of vaccines continues to grow with more emphasis on safety, availability, and accessibility. Abstract Multiple...
Examining two recent discoveries in goji berry chemistry and shedding light on how and why they are...
What bones tell us about the lives and deaths of the dead. In 2011, AOC Archaeology completed...
Investigating health and hygiene in 18th century Britain, against a backdrop of industrialization and the subsequent over-crowding...
Retracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...
Analyzing the evolving state of British health in the nineteenth century and how Livingstone’s perceptions of this...
In Peru, the challenge of providing health care to the country’s citizens has spurred interest in alternative...
Even before the 1952 and 1953 outbreaks, labs had been worked diligently to find a cure for...
For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years...
Sforza was an early scientist who experimented with chemistry and medicine. By Amy Lifson Caterina Sforza, the...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
Eighteenth-century medical practitioners faced menaces like cholera, dysentery, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, syphilis, typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, and...