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 ...

Rev. and expanded ed. of: The healers. c1976. Beginnings of American medicine -- Eighteenth century -- Medical profession -- Medicine in the revolutionary years -- Early nineteenth-century medicine -- ...

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

Congolese traditional medicine, rooted in cultural heritage, is disappearing due to the dominance of modern medicine; in rural areas, traditional healers remain essential, yet their knowledge is ...

SOUTH BOSTON, Va. (WSET) — Henrietta Lacks, known as the "mother of modern medicine," was honored with a statue on the 71st anniversary of her death. The life-size statue was unveiled at Constitution ...

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 ...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and modern medicine both play major roles in the treatment of people with illnesses and injuries in China. The coexistence of these two approaches reflects the rich ...

"With the exception of the papers by Claire Herrick and J.T.H. Connor, the essays collected together in this volume were originally presented at a conference on 'Medicine and the Management of Modern ...