Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Dr. Kuruvilla also previewed the upcoming WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine, to be held 17–19 December 2025 in New ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon.

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

Over 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection ...

Three winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine were announced in Stockholm, Sweden on Oct. 9. Prize winners Arvid Carlsson, ...

The Smithsonian’s portraits of women scientists give us a glimpse into the lives that helped shape modern discovery. Each ...

Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them ...

Horseshoe crabs have survived unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, but their bright blue blood now fuels one of the ...