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A 1959 synthesis, a 1975 approval and a pediatric regimen swap

A Bit Shameful to Produce Research Like This

A botany student, a modest paper and the stain that sorted bacteria

A cell therapy for transplant patients, approved on a single-arm trial

A charity hospital and a public test: how Massachusetts General became the stage for ether

A College Born in Protest: 1929

A Contaminated Plate and the Team That Made Penicillin a Drug

A Door Opened Slowly: Women at Harvard Medical School

A Drug Made Safe to Dose

A drug that prepares the transplant: motixafortide and the GENESIS trial

A famine in Egypt and a correction to Galen

A feud over vitalism in Vienna

A garrison doctor at Mauthausen and his trial testimony

A great surgeon and a hard man to work beside

A Health Day Born of an Assembly Vote

A Hole in the Skull and the Headache Myth That Followed

A Laboratory Built as a Meeting Place: The Salk Institute

A Madrid physiology school and a contested reputation

A Name, a Statute and the Evidence Gap Behind Charlotte's Web

A Nobel That Came Too Late to Share

A Packet of Salt and Sugar in a Refugee Camp

A pediatrician conscripted at Auschwitz: the case of Berthold Epstein

A physician between the clinic, the easel and the unconscious

A physician turned governor: Emin Pasha on the upper Nile

A physician who made meaning a method, and the arguments over his own story

A physician whose writing grew from her practice

A Radio Contest That Funded Heart Research: The American Heart Association

A Reformer Who Worked Through Legislatures

A refused antibiotic and the experiments built to justify it

A Rejected Trial Design Held Tivozanib Back for Eight Years

A semi-synthetic vinca drug made in a French laboratory and approved differently on two continents

A ship's physician and the question of heat

A Specialty Named for Nerves That Still Argues About the Mind

A surgeon in Cairo, Peshawar and Jeddah

A textbook that gave physiology its order, and its soul

A tighter grip on PD-1 than its rivals

A trained physician whose own cause of death was misreported for decades

A Yard of Dacron, a Sewing Machine and the Surgeon Who Received His Own Operation

After Cutter: how a manufacturing failure reshaped the choice between Salk and Sabin

Agar, a suggestion and a lid: how the Petri dish took shape in Koch's laboratory

Akeega and the MAGNITUDE trial: a combination tested by gene mutation

Alfred Blalock, Vivien Thomas and the question of credit for the blue baby operation

An accidental result and a shared credit: Eijkman and beriberi

An approval on one trial, a withdrawal after another

An eponym withdrawn: Friedrich Wegener and granulomatosis with polyangiitis

Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy and the Price of Gynecology

Avlayah for Hunter syndrome: treating the brain early, approved on an expedited path

Bedside teaching and "He Fed Fevers": how Robert Graves changed hospital teaching in Dublin

Before Charnley: a century of hip replacement experiments

Before the Q-Switched Laser: How People Tried to Remove Tattoos

Beyond the equation: Maud Menten and the azo-dye coupling reaction

Blocking many enzymes at once made panobinostat one of oncology's most repurposed drugs

Blood on Wheels: The Transfusion Unit Bethune Took to the Front

Bloodletting: Two Thousand Years of Orthodoxy and Its Overthrow

Blumenbach and the formative drive: a force for growth and repair

Bridging the Bench and the Clinic: Neuroscience in Medical Practice

Bright's Disease: One Name That Hid Many Kidney Diseases

Building drugs on purpose: how James Black designed propranolol and cimetidine

CABG against the stent: when surgery still wins

Charcot and the Question of Whether Hysteria Was a Disease of the Nerves

Chemical or electrical: Henry Dale, the synapse debate and a principle that needed revising

Continuous Passive Motion: From Salter Concept to Disputed Standard

Counting in units: Bernard Katz and quantal release at the synapse

Cross-circulation and the race against the clock in early open-heart surgery

Cullen and the system of the nerves

De Motu Animalium: Borelli and the body as a machine

Declaring War on Cancer in 1971

Designed to reach the tumor its predecessors could not

Does PEEP Raise Intracranial Pressure?

Dominique Jean Larrey: flying ambulances and triage by need, not rank

Eleven Men in a Boston Hospital Room

Embryo Donation and the Legal Fight Over What an Embryo Is

Ernst Gräfenberg: a name given to him decades after his work

Ernst-Günther Schenck: SS nutrition work and the dispute over the protein sausage tests

Ernst-Robert Grawitz: the approval chain for experiments on camp inmates

Errors of modern doctors: Leonhart Fuchs and the quarrel over Greek and Arabist medicine

Erwin Gohrbandt: pioneering surgery and the Dachau freezing conference

Ether in 1842, published in 1849: how Crawford Long documented his priority

Ferdinand Sauerbruch and the debate over his role under the Nazi government

Françoise Dolto and the child's body as a first language