Like compost nurturing an apple tree, or a library of autobiographies nurturing a historian, even "messy" data can yield ...

Ignaz Semmelweis Source: Mór Than/Wikimedia Commons The Origins of the Semmelweis Reflex The term "Semmelweis reflex" is derived from the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a 19th-century Hungarian ...

It wasn't until 1847 when the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, supported by scientific evidence, proposed that hand washing was a hygienic measure with a direct impact on people's health.

Matilde Montoya was the first woman to practise medicine in Mexico, earning a doctorate in 1887 and specialising in surgery and obstetrics. Montoya’s legacy inspired the establishment of better ...

For Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician-scientist in the mid-19th century, failure to learn that being right is attended by certain responsibilities had a very high cost. Ironically it would ...