Smallpox, once a deadly global scourge, became the first eradicated disease thanks to an accidental discovery by Edward ...

George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan. George Washington strikes a confident pose after the victorious Battle of Princeton in this ...

It turns out that this kind of medical technology not only exists today, but has been in existence for decades, and the ...

The 1970s provided a wave of cancer drugs, as part of the US government’s “war on cancer”, a recent report from Cancer Research UK showed that survival rates have doubled since the early 70s ...