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Billions of people worldwide suffer from headache disorders. Medical science continues to struggle with the difficulty of ...
Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's semi-autobiographical Little House books have long been familiar with Laura's older sister, Mary, and the explanation that scarlet fever caused her vision loss. But ...
These gory yet fascinating reads delve into the weirdest chapters of medical history, from the dancing plague of 1518 to the bizarre saga of Typhoid Mary.
A love story and medical mystery all in one, Eleanor Henderson’s memoir “Everything I Have Is Yours” chronicles her husband’s battle with an unidentifiable illness, as well as the toll it ...
I think there are few people who could disagree that House M.D is one of the greatest TV shows in history, and one of the ...
So Wells, a crime reporter for a regional paper,* throws herself into another medical mystery, interweaving her own case with that of Louise Augustine Gleizes, the face of nineteenth-century hysteria.
In his new book, “The Song of the Cell,” Siddhartha Mukherjee has taken on a subject that is enormous and minuscule at once.
“The New York Times Book of Medicine: More Than 150 years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine,” edited by Gina Kolata. Sterling, 2015. $24.95.
Librarian Susanne Caro was leafing through an 1888 book on Civil War medicine when she spied a small, yellowed envelope tucked between the pages. Freeing it, she read the inscription "scabs from ...
Once upon a time, I was the Book Lady. Little ones called me Miss Liz, teens knew me as the Book Witch, and, to adults, I was either just plain old Liz or “I heard you can help me.” For 10 years, my ...
Brain Swelling Medical Mystery Solved September 24, 2009 / 9:25 AM EDT / CBS "The Early Show"'s kicked off its "Medical Mysteries" series Thursday.
A mother’s book explores her son’s medical mystery KENNEBUNKPORT – One day, Beth Maloney was watching her son, Sammy, speaking to a crowd during the finals of a fifth-grade civics competition.