history of medicine

Research reveals how a Welsh poet turned the story of the first ‘test-tube baby’ into a moving narrative that helped draw attention to the women...

How did our medieval ancestors use dove faeces, fox lungs, salted owl or eel grease in medical treatments? A Wellcome-funded project at Cambridge...

250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had been treated for syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.

The COVID-19 pandemic should only present a short-term interruption to 250 years of improving life expectancy, argues historian Leigh Shaw-Taylor.

Dr Richard McKay traces the history of the 'patient zero' idea through epidemics such as HIV and typhoid, and the return of this trope with COVID-19.

Tensions between foreign climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests

A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a “wormhole” into the worries and...