A deadly epidemic disease, AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, marked the 1980s for Americans more than any other medical or health news. AIDS, first reported in 1981, is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which...

A crisis of confidence in the health-care-delivery system in the United States began and ended the decade of the 1970s. Although American medical science made spectacular advances and improvements in the overall American death rate and the infant and...

A typical doctor's office may not have looked much different to patients of the 1950s than it looked to their parents, but a new generation of physicians was inside providing care. Sick patients received the best treatment that had ever been...

The medical profession transformed itself after World War II. New methods of diagnosis and treatment expanded the physician's healing powers enormously, and unprecedented social pressure was applied to assure that those new powers were exercised...

Timeline of medicine and medical technology if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Before 1500 c. 2698 to 2596 B.C - Legendary date of composition of Huangdi Neijing or Yellow Emperor's Classic...

Robotics and information technologies will facilitate the duties of medical personnel and pharmacists in the future, making medical care more efficient and universal. Citizens' well-being will be overseen by health-record data bases, health monitors and electronic links with physicians. THIS whirlwind tour of...

Technological development is ever accelerating, bringing new products onto the market. To help understand the range of innovations emerging and their potential impacts, researchers at British Telecommunications began the Technology Timeline in 1991 under the direction of Paul Mcllroy. Since then, futurist Ian...