Dr. John Snow’s discovery that bacteria-contaminated water caused cholera saved countless 19th-century Londoners and changed public health forever.
Adam Kay, a former resident physician who is now a comedy writer, published a diary describing all the highs and lows of his six years working in NHS labor wards.
Bill Bryson walks us through our origins, anatomy, neuroses and much more in a read that’s as engaging as his travel writing.
Susanah Cahalan details her battle with anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis, a rare disease that a neurologist had to dig deeper than her list of symptoms to identify.
Aging is a disease that can be cured, writes Harvard researcher David Sinclair, PhD, who shares his findings—and the anti-aging tactics he uses.
This page-turner provides a short history of President James A. Garfield’s shooting and subsequent fatal infection.