Women in medicine still face gender bias, lack of recognition, and salary inequality. Awareness of women’s accomplishments and challenges is one way to try to improve the lives of women in medicine.

For every ailment under the sun, there's a cure -- or at least, someone selling something and claiming it as a cure. Shutterstock In the 1950s, Oklahoma pastor Charlie Shedd’s book convinced ...

Women in medicine still face gender bias, lack of recognition, and salary inequality. Awareness of women’s accomplishments and challenges is one way to try to improve the lives of women in medicine.

Rosalyn S. Yalow was a giant of medicine. A Nobel laureate and medical physicist, Yalow co-discovered the radioimmunoassay, an exquisitely sensitive means of using “radioactive tracers” to ...

The National Library of Medicine offers a wide-ranging series of online lectures on the history of medicine as seen through the lens of the world’s largest biomedical library.

(See Cover) One fresh spring afternoon twelve years ago, a stout, bald American and a compact, bright-eyed young Swiss lingered over lunch in Leipzig's famed Auerbach's Keller. "This is ...

A 2011 paper in the journal Social History of Medicine notes that in the middle ages, "many recipes mingle ‘charms and magic’ with pharmaceutical preparations." ...

A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today. By Danielle Friedman Six years ago, Dr. Elizabeth Comen, a breast ...

The history of medicine is replete with examples of illness resulting from sound therpeuic endeavor. The emergence of a new syndrome while the patient is being treated for another condition has ...

After more than 10,000 years of use, the ancient cultures and indigenous communities who use plant medicines may hold lessons for today's psychedelic Renaissance.

The College of Medicine celebrated Match Day, when fourth-year medical students learn where they will do their residency training, with the largest class in its history and at two campuses for the ...

Every March, National Women’s History Month serves as an opportunity to celebrate the groundbreaking accomplishments of women throughout history. From the earliest days of medicine, women have ...