Red wine is bad for you again. Pesticides are killing the bees. Wait a few days, and the bees are doing better than we thought. If you weren’t paying attention to the news a few […]
Tag: history of medicine
How a Health Historian Became a Comedy Headliner
Sometimes comedy is all about the timing: The Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793 was absolutely not funny at the time when it left 5000 Philadelphians dead. “But more than 200 years […]
From India, Japan and Syria, 19th Century Women Who Trekked to Philadelphia for Medical School
You might not expect radio to be the medium popularizing an old photo, but so it is this month, with a photo of some extraordinary medical students in Pennsylvania in 1885, who were featured on […]