A Hartford dentist’s discovery in the 1840s made pain-free surgery possible, though he never received recognition during his lifetime.

Mike Vrabel is standing on the edge of something he has chased throughout his coaching career. After winning three Super ...

Anesthetics are meant to make you feel comfortable enough and feel as little pain as possible during a potentially agonizing medical procedure. Being in that medicated state can sometimes lead to ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Both sides — the New York State Nurse Association and reps from Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai and Montefiore hospitals — said they ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a Florida registered nurse relinquished his license after allegedly ...

Petr Yan’s road back to the Octagon just took a detour through a hospital room, and it wasn’t a short one. The reigning UFC bantamweight champion recently revealed that he underwent major lumbar ...

Medicine did not decide to abandon community. It simply redesigned itself in ways that made community harder to sustain. Neal Cohen, MD, a professor emeritus of anesthesia and perioperative care and ...

Anesthesia workforce challenges are often framed as a simple staffing shortage, but leaders across the field say that narrative often misses the mark. From inefficient care models and misaligned ...

Research shows that heart disease is a long-recognized and persistent medical challenge for gorillas living in zoos, ...

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...