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This week, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh passed away at the age of 70 from complications related to lung cancer.  His show aired on almost 600 radio stations

National Women Physician Day 2021: 6 Inspiring Female Trailblazers In Medicine KEY POINTS Today, more and more women are entering the health sector On National Women Physicians Day, have a look at six women who made their mark in medicine Feb. 3 marks National Women Physicians Day, a day to celebrate and honor the many women doctors in the country. It falls on the birthday of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. — Elizabeth Blackwell. This year marks Blackwells 200th  birt...

The Social Order From the time of the Roman Empire until well after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882, many of the best medical minds believed that "miasmas"—invisible vapors emitted from the earth—caused killer infections such as typhus, diphtheria, and malaria. Though the bacteriological revolution of the late nineteenth century routed that theory, a new miasma theory has lately sprung up in schools of public health, holding that racism and sexism, though as unmeasurable...