Medicine

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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.

When Black and brown activists created Lincoln Detox, they also helped spread Eastern medicine.

From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on beneath that thick rind.

After the pandemic erased a generation, putting the pieces of the puzzle back together.

How and why the harvested body parts of atomic bomb victims spent decades abroad before being returned to Hiroshima.

A new exhibit at the Newberry library touches on the history of guaiacum treatments.

The first episode of TED's Far Flung podcast looks at the city's unique challenges.