Ancient Egypt (3300BC to 525BC) is where we first see the dawn of what, today, we call "medical care". The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization on this planet. Egyptians thought ...

Yet traditional medicine remains a vibrant part of the state health care system. Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower ...

Former Indian prime minister Morarji Desai claimed he drank a daily glass of urine, which contributed to his longevity.

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization ... Public health facilities were encouraged throughout the empire. Roman medicine grew out of what military doctors learnt and demanded.

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

At the BBC News, Dr. David Cox explores "What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics": …[UC ...

Of the three systems of medicine which have come down to us the most ancient is that ascribed to Atreya, a physician who is assigned by Dr. Hoernle to the sixth century B.C.; the system ascribed ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C. Traditional ...

From March 20 to 22, the "Silk Road Medical Dialogue: Exchange Between Ancient Chinese Medicine and Sri Lankan Traditional Medicine" series of events took place in Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy ...