Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist ...

The Barre Museum Association repatriated two native headdresses to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The items date back to the late ...

Find out how medicinal leeches are reclaiming a place in modern surgery and therapy, offering unique healing benefits.

Leeches made a medical comeback as “hirudotherapy”, starting in the 1960s and widely used since the 1980s. Researchers have ...

The Valencian town of Chiva has been without electricity, water or communication for days while coming to terms with a ...

University of Zagreb researcher Beata Halassy treated her breast cancer with an unproven virus-based therapy using viruses ...

The Old England Journal of Medicine is a venerable publication that has been running for some 210 years, long before an ...

Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty ...

The work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in the 19th century led to several key breakthroughs in medicine. These included knowledge of the causes of disease, vaccines, anaesthetics and antiseptics.

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...