Tag: History of medicine
COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren’t enough...
Powel H. Kazanjian, University of Michigan
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat...
US dodged a bird flu pandemic in 1957 thanks to eggs...
Alexandra M. Lord, Smithsonian Institution
In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced empty shelves in their grocery...
Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US – and...
G. Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College
In 1976, a woman from Roanoke, Virginia, named Rhoda received a prescription for two...
Women’s History Month: 5 groundbreaking researchers who mapped the ocean floor,...
Maggie Villiger, The Conversation
Behind some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries and innovations are women whose names might...
Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years
Leslie S. Leighton, Georgia State University
The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an...
Rabies’ horrifying symptoms inspired folktales of humans turned into werewolves, vampires...
Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia
In 1855, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on the gruesome murder of a bride by her new husband. The...
Paid sick days and physicians at work: ancient Egyptians had state-supported...
Anne Austin, Stanford University
We might think of state supported health care as an innovation of the 20th century, but it’s a much older tradition...
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
