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 made ...

The professionalisation of medicine has often excluded and erased women from its history. Becky Cridford , Marina Politis , and Jenna Chambers call for doctors to reclaim the wise women who came ...

Rossi Thomson/Reproduced by concession of the University of Padua Andreas Vesalius performed dissections of human bodies in the courtyard of the Palazzo Bo (Credit: Rossi Thomson/Reproduced by ...

Ancient medicine has evolved over time, some practices were bizarre, whereas some we use even now, from the concept of informed consent to several medicinal ingredients. Decades and centuries of ...

Saint Louis University School of Medicine is proud to be part of the 450-year tradition of Jesuit education. The School of Medicine trains physicians and biomedical scientists, conducts medical ...

The history of medicine is filled with accounts of strange and often downright dangerous “treatments,” but these have sometimes opened the way for lifesaving discoveries. In this Curiosities of ...

The word quarantine comes from the Italian derived from quaranta or 40. In the context of disease, it goes back to the Middle Ages. It refers to the period of 40 days that a ship from a country ...

Allopathic medicine is another term for conventional, or modern Western medicine. It is an evidence-based system where doctors and other healthcare professionals treat symptoms using conventional ...