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.

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.

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.

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." ...

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 ...

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 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 ...