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It was springtime in the Shenandoah Valley when Virginia’s first medical school went up in flames. Ordered by a former...
Today tens of thousands of medical graduates across the United States will receive an email informing them of the...
Featuring enduring hits like ‘Isn’t She Lovely,’ ‘Sir Duke,’ and ‘As,’ a compelling case could be made that Stevie...
“The World of a Nightmare”: The Rarely Retold Med Student Mercy Mission to a Nazi Concentration Camp
It was early April 1945 when the call went out for student volunteers at London’s medical schools. Though World War II...
Centered around a country pub and a hardy community of sheep and cattle farmers, Trundle, New South Wales is a near...
In late 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were preparing to be the first humans to leave...
Before 1922, most observations of diabetes in medical history didn’t stretch much further than the acknowledgement of a...
A former bawdy frontier town located in Great Plains cattle country, Miles City, Montana seems an unlikely place for...
For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, their introduction to ‘hands-on’ American medical care came in...
Viewed through the prism of history, those living in North America in the 1770s lived through a time of great change. A...
Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, there were few hospitals in Japan quite like Hiroshima’s Shima Hospital....
They’d be hard to track down, but somewhere out in the United States right now are thousands of vinyl records...
Snaking up and down nearly 23 miles of Boston’s Charles River is a paved bike path well-known to the city’s cyclists....
In the modern media era, it is virtually impossible to imagine how much surgery on a sitting President would dominate...
On September 11, 1942, one hundred and twenty feet below the surface of the South China Sea, one of the most...
While still scarcer than men, a female surgeon is now a common sight in the American military’s operating theaters. A...
On May 25 1973, a Saturn IB rocket roared into the sky above Florida’s legendary Cape Canaveral. Alongside two other...
In 1956, a 20-year-old pre-med student from Boston made American figure skating history in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Over two public lectures in Philadelphia in late May 1765, a 29-year-old European-educated ex-army surgeon delivered a...
It’s #WomeninMedicineWednesday and we wanted to highlight four fascinating women in medicine who inspire us!