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Officials in Morocco say more than two thousand people have died in the country's earthquake disaster this weekend.

Multiple researchers were involved in ultimately proving that malaria was transmitted by mosquitos. This was prior to 1900

The global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two and a half years—I am writing in the spring of 2022—has brought with it a renewed interest in public health and, when it comes to the Middle East, broader interest in how populations there e

Western medicine has begun a reckoning with its inconvenient pasts, from dethroning medical heroes to an increasing awareness of how doctors have treated colonized and enslaved populations. A statue of the “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, was removed from New York City’s Central