From medieval herbalists to Nobel prize winners, Alice Loxton and Anouska Lewis explore the enduring role of women in medicine. They are joined by some of the fundamental women who have shaped ...

From laissez-faire to the birth of the NHS, Alice Loxton and Anouska Lewis explore the changing role of government in public health. They document the key moments and figures, and test your knowledge ...

From the first female doctors to award-winning scientists, these women transformed the face of medicine—yet their stories are often forgotten. Medicine hasn’t always been a level playing field—for ...

With a few exceptions, women have been systematically erased from the history of nearly every field, and research and medicine are no exception. Anyone who disagrees with this assertion should ...

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. One of the most popular TV shows on Netflix, a miniseries about the life and death of an obscure president, spares viewers ...

Source: Krishnavedala, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons There is no question that exercise benefits our bodies. The idea traces back to ancient Indian medicine. The Ayurvedic tradition (the word Ayurveda ...

The recent announcement that young people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will have the opportunity to take a new GCSE in natural history, driven by a campaign led by naturalist Mary Colwell, ...

Today, more women than men are entering medical school and pursuing a career in medicine. Who were some of the pioneering women physicians, and what challenges do contemporary women in medicine face?

Physicians received unexpected news recently when a small study published in JAMA Network Open found that ChatGPT-4 had outdone us at our own craft: diagnosis, what some have called the physician’s ...

Late in the new movie The Report, Adam Driver’s Dan Jones argues with his prospective defense attorney over who really said, “History is written by the victors.” The lawyer (played by Corey Stoll) ...

Healthcare has evolved dramatically in recent years, with technology driving countless new opportunities, just as demographic and societal factors have created new challenges. This trajectory will ...