Medical Story

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Turkey in 1856, the scene was pretty grim. The mortality rate was high, and the hospital...

In Europe in the 1840s, many new mothers were dying from an ailment known as puerperal fever, or childbed fever. Even under the finest medical care...

When Emma Yang was 7 or 8 years old, her grandmother became increasingly forgetful. Over the next few years, those memory problems, caused by early Alzheimer’s disease,...

Bethany Hamilton went out to surf at Tunnels Beach in Ha’ena, Hawaii with her best friend, Alana Blanchard, and Blanchard’s father and brother. While lying on...