In response to views that cigarettes were unhealthful, tobacco companies used images of medical professionals to sell their products.
Doctors are trying to solve the mysteries surrounding the health of famous artists such as Leonardo da Vinci by examining their art.
A Stanford historian explains how frequent yellow fever epidemics in 19-century Louisiana generated cultural and social norms in its fatal wake.
In this interview, Stanford psychiatrist and novelist Daniel Mason reflects on the intersections between writing and psychiatry.
John Farquhar, a beloved mentor, and pioneer in cardiovascular disease prevention at Stanford, died Aug. 22 at the age of 91.
Sylvy Kornberg was known as the wife and mother of Nobel laureates. But she was also an accomplishment biochemist, her granddaughter writes.
The medical dictionary was small, with a worn green-black cover. Published in 1898, it featured a wonderfully odd assortment of terms, with definitions averaging about six words. I set out to learn more about who wrote it and how it was used.
The strange skeletal remains of a fetus discovered in Chile have turned up new insights into the genetics of some bone diseases, according to a new study.
I didn't know I was interested in history of health insurance before I read the excerpt from An American Sickness that appears in the latest issue …
For Christmas in 1982, Henry Ward Trueblood's wife, Nancy, gave him a book about the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, the first major engagement between …
Linda Bine grew up listening to bedtime stories about her father's experiences in World War II. When he was a second-year Stanford resident in 1942, …
Grave robbing, plagiarism and bodies of lies; this is what you uncover when you start digging into the history of anatomy. In a story published …
In the summer of 1959, not long after Stan Schrier, MD, joined Stanford’s Department of Medicine as an assistant professor, he attended his first meeting …
Stanford professor emerita Charlotte Jacobs, MD, spent the past decade with the ghost of polio vaccine creator Jonas Salk, MD, the subject of her second …
Anne Austen, PhD, a post-doctoral researcher in Stanford's history department, recently conducted the first detailed study of human remains at what is now called Deir …
When Philip Pizzo, MD, came to interview for the position of dean of Stanford's medical school in 2000 he stayed in a nearby hotel. Taking a …
