history of medicine

As well as telling us more about earlier societies, the study of diseases in the past is proving an invaluable tool for modern science, as a new book...

Sperm will take centre stage at a conference in Cambridge later this week as researchers from a wide range of disciplines gather to consider the...

For much of the 20th century, health professionals were locked in debate about one possible cause of paralytic polio. Some argued that the viral...

An examination of historic notebooks shows that physicians, and the families who called on their services, made consistent efforts to learn from...