In 1993, a young Navajo woman arrived at an emergency room in New Mexico suffering from flu-like symptoms and shortness of breath. Despite such 鈥渕inor鈥� symptoms, she soon passed away. Ironically,...
Sir Winston Churchill said Alan Turing鈥檚 breaking of German codes for secret messages shortened the Second World War by two years. Computer scientists credit Turing with formulating the...
Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is exactly what happened at Boston鈥檚 Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846 in the surgical theatre that would...
Jay McLean walked into Dr. William Howell鈥檚 laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and placed a beaker of cat blood on his desk. 鈥淐an you please tell me when the blood clots鈥� he asked? It never did...
After the 86-year-old hockey legend suffered disabling strokes last fall, his family took him to a clinic in Mexico where he underwent experimental stem cell treatment. The procedure involved...
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. There鈥檚 at least one in mine. A couple of years ago while on a cruise I pinched a spoon from the dining room. It wasn鈥檛 because of any lack of spoons at home...
William Beaumont was an army doctor stationed at Fort Mackinac in Michigan in 1822 when an accident occurred that allowed him to make the first systematic study of the process of digestion. Alexis...
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