I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; so ...

Theodosis Diakoyannis is 84 years old and smokes two cigarettes a day ‘for health reasons’. ‘I have no doubt that if Hippocrates were alive he would have found beneficial uses for tobacco,’ he says of ...

When we think of medicine today, hospitals, doctors, treatments, we often forget how long it has been studied and practiced.

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"The AI revolution in healthcare is the greatest revolution since Hippocrates. There are those who will say otherwise, but in ...

Professor Arturo Castiglioni, 66, of the University of Padua in Italy, is a refugee teaching at Yale. The son of a rabbi, he was born in Trieste, brought up an Austrian. After World War I, when Italy ...

Legend has it that Hippocrates, the ancient Greek "father" of medicine, taught his students under a tree on the island of Kos. More than 25 centuries later, experts in the US have produced the first ...