Understanding human anatomy, and how to diagnose and treat illnesses, has changed dramatically from ancient to modern times. This collection features people whose medical breakthroughs helped to save millions of lives.
Typhoid Fever - a life-threatening disease caused by bacteria, not by a virus - still impacts about 21.5 million people every year.
After delivering parts of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sinks in July of 1945. Years later, a 12-year-old school bo...
After a painstaking reconstruction of the Spanish-Flu virus, Drs.