Medicine

A horror movie proved an unlikely source of inspiration.

Once a haven for tuberculosis patients, Barlow Respiratory Hospital is uniquely suited to the COVID and post-COVID eras.

Historically, institutions often interred their dead with simple markers. In Massachusetts, researchers are learning about the patients' lives and the facilities' fraught legacies.

A recently sold letter from medical pioneer Edward Jenner provides some insight as to why.

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A vitamin deficiency may have changed the course of a continent's history.

Nearly 140 years after being snatched, almost dissected, and eventually reburied, Clara Loeper may finally get a headstone.

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The Archive of Healing includes hundreds of thousands of folk healing traditions from six continents.

Injured birds, bats, echidnas, and more got some TLC during a disaster.

In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case.

Cold War animal experimentation and the roots of transplantation medicine.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

Metal phalluses and vulvas were thought to protect against disease.