Dr. Stanley B. Burns, a New York-based ophthalmologist and psychiatrist, has amassed a collection of 1 million or so historical pictures.

We need to be sure medical students learn about every disease without judging the people living with it. That didn't happen in my lesson on sickle cell.

This satirical dictionary peels apart the empty jargon and linguistic absurdities that biotech investors and entrepreneurs use to promote pet projects.

Adaptogens get their names from the adaptive properties the plants exhibit in nature, meaning the plants respond and adapt well to stressful environmental conditions, making them hardier and stronger. Fortunately, these herbs have the same effect on

H.I.V. INFECTION RATES ARE FALLING IN AFRICA, A SIGN THAT THE AIDS EPIDEMIC COULD BE BROUGHT TO AN END. A couple of years ago, European researchers began studying more than a thousand couples, gay and straight, in which one member had been infected w