Medicine

Medicine

A Wellcome Research Resources Award-funded project of the University of Cambridge Libraries has recently finished conserving, digitizing, and making available online 190 manuscripts containing more than 7,000 pages of medieval medical recipes.

The Ebers Papyrus, dating to around 1550 BC, includes over 100 columns of text recommending various remedies for diseases, including methods for treating headache and pain.

The desire to stop your own tragedies from happening to someone else may be a strong motivator. However, the process of drug discovery has always been grindingly, gruelingly slow.

The paper focuses on the impact of internal war in medieval England, specifically the Barons' Wars of the 1260s and their possible consequences for the political art of the English realm.

Adaptability allows us to stay anchored in principles like empathy and integrity while being nimble enough to grow, learn, and respond to the evolving world around us.

As a physician who diagnoses cancer, I have come across this line of thinking in my patients, and found that some were using ivermectin to treat their life-threatening tumors.

"I'm beyond grateful for the incredible NCHART and Linville-Central Rescue teams, who got to them in the middle of nowhere and saved his life! He was air-lifted to and treated at Johnson City Medical Center, TN, and is now recovering at home," his father, Imran Shah, said in a Facebook post.

Sun Pharma's factory faced severe scrutiny after inspectors found contamination, leading to a ban on exportation to the U.S., highlighting the conflict between safety and drug supply.

To read Rachel Clarke's The Story of a Heart is to experience an onslaught of often competing emotions, showcasing the medical marvels at play in tragic circumstances.

In lonely strip malls and dusty markets, I began scribbling in notebooks. The boy on the metal table was the first ghost to come forward.

Penfield’s determination to help his sister through neurosurgery marks a pivotal moment in medical history where the risks of the trade intersected with the personal life of a surgeon.

We're just dumbfounded by this decision made by LCME. We have such a rich and incredible history of talented Black physicians. If we knock out the access before they even are entering medical schools... we're just going to be a nation that's not as creative, not as innovative and not as successful.

The Tylenol murders of 1982 demonstrated the vulnerability of consumers to product tampering, leading to changes in packaging and safety regulations across the pharmaceutical industry.

Medical school has been filled with late nights in the library, reading up on new literature and guidelines and diverse encounters with a wide variety of patients. But most importantly, the last four years have solidified my place in the medical field, alongside the lifelong friends I have made and the incredible attendings, residents, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and dietitians I have had the pleasure of working with.

On Christmas Eve 1942, surrounded by enemy warships, a USS Silversides crewman underwent a life-saving appendectomy using makeshift tools in the submarine's wardroom.

It made science very lonely for a while, and I feel like one of the great benefits of working in science, at academic centers, is the collaborative nature of it.

The discovery of a severely injured skeleton in Lund, Sweden, reveals insights on the care individuals with disabilities received in the late Middle Ages, indicating a complex societal perception.