Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, in what the United Nations chief called a “terrible escalation” in the conflict.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkiye, Jordan and Qatar express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces ...

Dubbed the "Angel's Glow" by Civil War soldiers doctors reported that those with glowing wounds had lower infection rates and ...

Sudan's brutal two-year war has entered a new phase. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has seized control of the entire ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

The Civil War might seem to today's physicians like a quaint anachronism, irrelevant to modern concerns, a blurred panorama of drunken surgeons wiping their scalpels on blood-soaked aprons and ...

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine will host its annual Civil War Medicine Living Historians Workshop on March 14. The workshop is an all-day symposium featuring some of the skills, knowledge ...

My grandfather told me that when he was a boy, he would steal glances at a Civil War veteran sitting in church every Sunday. The man had a gaping hole in his forehead, a gruesome reminder of the ...

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Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...