The museum's Hall of Immortals features 12 stone statues of important figures throughout medicine. "It starts with Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and goes through time ending with Marie Curie.

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax ...

The human body today has many replaceable parts, ranging from artificial hearts to myoelectric feet. What makes this possible is not just complicated technology and delicate surgical procedures. It’s ...

Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have lost limbs since Russia’s full-scale ...

During the Vietnam War, most American GIs flew alone, and not with their units, to and from Vietnam aboard a chartered 707 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian ...

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian intelligence soldier doesn’t know how long his clinical death lasted after an explosive detonated beneath him. All Andrii Rubliuk remembers is overwhelming ...