Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

I used to be dismissive of spiritual approaches to healing. Then I opened my eyes to something essential about them.

Hippocrates of Cos, c. 460 BC to c. 370 BC, was an important figure in the ancient medical world. The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was hailed by Medieval doctors as the ‘Father of ...

The Greek physician Hippocrates described the symptoms of pneumonia 2,400 years ago. But this affliction of the lungs still kills more people in the United States than any other infectious disease ...

In fact, Hippocrates, Greek physician and so-called "Father of Western Medicine" who practiced some 2,500 years ago, was himself a proponent of personalized medicine (Sykiotis et al., 2005).

The tale goes that Greek physician Hippocrates applied crushed snails to treat skin inflammations. Later on, snails were dunked in pots of salt water and vinegar that forced them to release the slime.

Later came "the Hippocratic Corpus" often attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who is widely regarded as the father of modern Western medicine (although scholars today think the ...