Since the 1950s, women's preventative medicine and health care have greatly improved in the developed world, particularly through the availability of new diagnostic techniques. The use of Pap tests and mammography has become standard methods...

Despite the exciting advances that took place in science and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was only in the nineteenth century that medicine itself became scientific. This was largely the result of the integration of the...

Outer space has a very different environment from that of Earth. The atmosphere, radiation, and gravity levels are so drastically varied that several adjustments are made to protect astronauts from the deadly effects of the space environment on the...

Traditionally, space medicine has tackled medical problems associated with the space environment. Increasingly, however, space medicine also encompasses research conducted aboard space stations and vehicles. Medical research conducted in microgravity...

Medicine is the science and "art" of maintaining and/or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. The term is derived from the Latin ars medicina meaning the art of healing.[1][2] The modern practice of medicine...

* A successful pioneering pilot study into robot-assisted keyhole heart operations could mean the new procedures will soon be replacing traditional, more painful heart surgery. Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine performed heart bypass surgery on 19 patients using a machine which...

Dear Doctor Becky Medicine, mittens can help warm cold hands of Raynaud's By BECKY WANG-CHENG Medical College of Wisconsin Monday, March 19, 2001 Q. I always hope someone will write in about Raynaud's disease. Well, so far nothing, so...

Have you ever noticed that the honey in your cupboard never goes bad? Honey has been used externally to treat burns and wounds for thousands of years, from Ancient Egypt though World War II. It fell out of favor in recent decades when antibiotic...

Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite. Worried about her daughters' lack of appetite, the young Houston mother was merely following her grandmother's advice when she gave the two girls and a niece a dose of "greta" — a Mexican folk medicine...

“Today, there is no better nation in which to become sick than the United States.” —Doug Bandow “Yes, as we’re often told, American medicine is the best in the world. . . . But good as it is, it still could be a lot...

Explores how modern medical procedures, including plastic surgery, prenatal screening, and human cloning, have effected society.