New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot ...

A resurfaced 1943 study brings the history of human experiments conducted on Indigenous children in Canadian residential schools into focus.

As Green writes, “The cure is where the disease is not and the disease is where the cure is not.” As everything for me is ...

Across the spectrum of human afflictions—from cancer to heart disease to rare genetic conditions—medical investigators are continually attempting to break new ground by developing better methods of ...

Despite decades of experience, advanced health systems, and deep medical knowledge, the WHO European region is still at risk from the global epidemic of tuberculosis. There are at least three pressing ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever.

In 1951, a young Black woman named Henrietta Lacks presented to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with a complaint of vaginal ...