 | | | | Today In Health History Headlines | | | You might consider videotaping the birth of your baby, but would you let a television station tape the delivery to show to its audience?
Today is World AIDS Day, a day devoted to increasing the public's awareness about acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
As you might expect, the first state medical society was founded in Massachusetts.
On this date in 1857, Nobel prize-winning physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington was born in London, England.
While Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel was experimenting with nitroglycerin as an explosive, scientists and physicians were testing its medical uses.
The first operation to remove a brain tumor was performed by the nephew of the famous 19th century British surgeon Joseph Lister.
Russell Morse Wilder contributed a great deal to understanding diabetes.
The bizarre healing of a stomach wound allowed a little-known U.S. Army surgeon to found the field of medicine known as gastroenterology.
Although penicillin was discovered in the late 19th century, its use wasn't accepted until the 1940s, when it was produced as the first true antibiotic.
Until the 1940s, many biologists thought of the cell as simply a "bag of enzymes."
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