The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

Rosalie tells Jim Al-Khalili about her journey from classics and ancient history to biomedicine, including some of her adventures in Egypt in the 1960s. She talks about some of her most significant ...

Before pharmacies and drug stores, the ancients turned to Mother Earth for healing. The leaves, flowers, roots, and bark of ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), a lung disease often marked by a persistent cough, began in January 2024 in Kansas City, ...