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The next time you're at the doctor's office and you notice all the hand washing and sterile equipment, think of President James Garfield and count your...
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Many of us are following the headlines about the Zika virus with mounting alarm. Before that, it was Ebola. Think back to October 2014, when a New...
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This week marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Alice Hamilton’s death. Hamilton was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in...
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This week marks the 94th anniversary of the birth of one of the most determined and important women in medical science: Rosalyn Yalow. While many people...
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It’s easy to take for granted the leaps and bounds medical science has made in the last two centuries. Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816....
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On this day 133 years ago, a young German physician stood up before the members of the Physiological Society of Berlin and announced he had found the...
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February 7th marks the 130th birthday of the American writer Sinclair Lewis, whose 1925 Pulitzer-prize winning novel Arrowsmith was the first novel to...