Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine.

Finally, the widespread deployment of AI will catalyze change in almost every aspect of healthcare, including using AI to ...

For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine has relied on the wisdom of ancient texts and the hands-on expertise of seasoned ...

Ancient Egypt (3300BC to 525BC) is where we first see the dawn of what, today, we call "medical care". The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization on this planet. Egyptians thought ...

Yet traditional medicine remains a vibrant part of the state health care system. Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower ...

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization ... Public health facilities were encouraged throughout the empire. Roman medicine grew out of what military doctors learnt and demanded.

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

India's dense tapestry of ancient medicine, specifically Ayurveda, has been tapping the healing powers of native herbs for centuries. Ancient remedies, hitherto part of everyday existence ...

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Kristi Upson-Saia and comedian Stu Goldsmith to explore the strange world of ancient medicine. The most powerful Roman you've never heard of – Agrippina the ...

At the BBC News, Dr. David Cox explores "What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics": …[UC ...