291 Items Tagged

Medicine

Sainshand, Mongolia

Danzanravjaa Museum

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.

Scientists Can Wiggle a Mouse's Whiskers With Electrical Fields

The work could lead to treatments for depression and epilepsy.

Kelsey Kennedy June 2, 2017

Brazilian Doctors Are Using Fish Skin to Treat Burn Victims

It might not be pretty, but it is effective.

Eric Grundhauser May 26, 2017

The Scandalous Life of Nurse and Adventurer Kate Marsden

She spent 11 months trekking to Siberia to find a cure for leprosy, but her love life overshadowed everything.

Sarah Laskow May 26, 2017

What's Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years

"We are trying hard to undermine this undeserved trust of quacks."

Eric Grundhauser May 19, 2017

Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, and Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet's

The famed nurse was also an early practitioner of marshaling statistics to advance social causes.

Cara Giaimo May 12, 2017

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There Are People Who Pay Thousands for the Empty Pill Bottles of Dead Celebrities

Stars in question have included Elvis, Truman Capote, Michael Jackson, and Marilyn Monroe.

Eve Kahn May 5, 2017

A New Robot Can Drill Through a Skull in Under 3 Minutes

The future of cranial surgery is here.

Eric Grundhauser May 3, 2017

The Twisted History of IUD Design

Before doctors settled on the T-shape, these contraceptives came in all shapes and sizes.

Sarah Laskow May 3, 2017

A Visit to the Synthetic Cadaver Factory

Florida's SynDaver Labs makes extraordinarily advanced anatomical models.

Eric Grundhauser May 2, 2017

Hrodna, Belarus

Museum of Malformations of the Human Body

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

Battle Creek, Michigan

Dr. J.H. Kellogg Discovery Center

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tuberculosis Huts

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

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Limbiate, Italy

Mombello Psychiatric Hospital

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Why Ancient Greek Temples Were Full of Disembodied Clay Limbs

Arms and legs and eyes and ears and genitals, oh my!

Carly Silver March 3, 2017

In 1914, Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth

They had associations and rallies advocating for "twilight sleep."

Sarah Laskow February 23, 2017

What It's Like to Hold Your Own Heart

Baylor University Medical Center in Texas is encouraging transplant patients to meet their former organs.

Lauren Young February 17, 2017

The Surprisingly Stubborn Theory That Beethoven's Heartbeat Influenced His Music

For decades, doctors have been trying to use a few sonatas to diagnose the composer with cardiac arrhythmia.

Cara Giaimo February 16, 2017