Grow, infant, and be nourished! The University College London-World Health Organization Global Health Histories seminars continue with a talk on Wednesday February 2 by Professor Lawrence Weaver of Royal Sick Kids in Glasgow who will argue that the WHO infant growth standard should not alone be regarded as an ideal growth trajectory for all babies. [...]

Amid the sanitary optimism and the biomedical discoveries of the post-World War II era, public health policies in Brazil in the 1950s were strongly marked by actions to control and eradicate diseases of the countryside. In 1956, President Juscelino Kubitschek (JK), to defend the importance of combating so-called rural endemic diseases — which he called [...]

Take a trip into the creative world of the modern med student: The Hippo, a wonderful online magazine of medical humanities art, essay, humour and vignette produced by students in the University of Michigan medical school

Doña Pasquala Chaves, legitimate wife of Don Manuel de Aguilar, indios caciques and residents of the said town, gave birth (having started to labour at eight the night before) to a dead girl that had two heads that were perfect in every way, and between them was something like a little arm…