In 1902, the U.S. Army Medical Corps adopted the Caduceus as its emblem. The symbol then began appearing more frequently in North American medical contexts, gradually becoming mistaken as the true ...

Dr. Dugdale is a physician and an ethicist at Columbia University and the author of the book “The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.” Early in my medical career, I was shocked to ...

The nonprofit organization Remote Area Medical will be offering a free, comprehensive health care clinic May 31 through June 1 in Big Rapids. The clinic will be provide dental, vision and medical care ...

The Artist Tree is offering free medical marijuana to patients and veterans at its two Southern California dispensaries. The Compassion Program provides free products to patients “suffering from ...

Whoever started putting the ancient Greek icon on American public health officers’ uniforms had it confused with another snake-and-staff symbol. The caduceus is the “Born in the U.S.A.” of ...

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This is how the noisy bug became a celebrated symbol in the region. In the Provençal town of Aubagne, ceramicist Bernard Amy continues the handmade process of creating the limited edition cicada.

When Dr. Lucy Lomas learned about the disturbing role of slavery in the origins of her medical specialty, gynecology, she said she felt “heaviness and heartache,” some of which she still ...