On display at the East Grand Forks Heritage Village, an iron lung symbolized the impact of poliomyelitis and focused attention on disease threats and the importance of vaccination Sidney Berard, of ...

Tucked away in the basement of the Harvard Medical School library is a large capsule-like contraption on wheels that is both a relic of the past and, public health experts warn, a caution for the ...

In May, surgeons at USC and UCLA collaborated to perform the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. Currently, when a bladder fails or needs to be removed, doctors create a “neobladder” using a ...

The year was 1955. I was 13 months old and my mother was feeding me on a spring morning while watching “The Today Show” on a black and white television with a tiny screen. Big news was announced – Dr.