Family physicians often play a pivotal role in encouraging healthier behaviors, from promoting vaccinations to advising on ...

But the practice of melding the modern with the traditional is also spreading among health care consumers. When they don’t find relief from Western medicine, Americans increasingly are turning ...

1 This article introduces a few of the pioneering women both from the past and in the modern era who forever changed medicine. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn an MD in the US., ...

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright macabre. Among these is "mumia"—a medicinal substance derived from mummified ...

This is from the series: Medicine through time. This could be used to ask pupils to discuss key factors that combined to change the health of the population in the modern era. Looking at key ...

In an age where modern medicine dominates, traditional healing practices have not only survived but thrived, offering a holistic alternative that has been passed down through generations. Russian ...