The quackery of medicine

SCIENCE HAD ITS ‘CHRONIC PAIN REVOLUTION.’ SO WHY IS TREATMENT STILL BROKEN, DELAYED AND OUT OF REACH?

For about a decade I was convinced I was mortally ill. The identity of my illness changed several times, but the fear was always the same: in short, that I was dying; that I had some dreadful and no d

LEECHES and baked owl might not be the first remedies we reach for when feeling poorly, but in the Middle Ages, that was just what the doctor ordered. Medieval medicine was a mix of magic, myth and cu

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