ROANOKE, Va. – Forever changing the medical industry — a black woman from Roanoke known as “the Mother of Modern Medicine” played a pivotal role in American history. But it’s a name many don’t ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Black History goes beyond the month of February, and an exhibit dedicated to a woman whose contributions to medicine will live on forever sits on the campus of Kalamazoo College.

A woman prepares aromatherapy session at the table with essential oil diffuser and herbs, with different types of oils and essences. As patients we can seek conventional “modern” medicine or opt for ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. They turned once-deadly infections into treatable ...

The Cheselden Medal ( named after a famous 17th century St Thomas's Hospital surgeon) is a prize for medicine - awarded every ...

Rifling through an old herbal book, Fabien Schultz, PhD, discovered a handwritten three-page recipe. Schultz, head of ethnopharmacology and zoopharmacognosy at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical ...

As familiar notions suggest, medieval medicine was influenced by herbs and humours. But these factors were part of a broader ...