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 ...

Now known as the father of medicine, Hippocrates is credited with writing many manuals advising readers on how to deal with a variety of illnesses and ailments. One of his texts, On Regimen In Acute ...

Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is a former professor of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. This photo is from about 2017. (Courtesy Photo) In this time ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary culture and the arts. Lane Fox’s work begins with a study of bodies in Homer and a striking insight: ...

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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 ...

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 ...