medicine

Hospitals Struggle With IV Saline Shortage

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Growing Your Own Tissue: Just Add Stress and Stir

By Alice Park

Why It's More Deadly to Get Sick at Night Or On Weekends

By Alexandra Sifferlin

The Case for Meditation As Medicine

By Jacoba Urist
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Hate Obama, Love Obamacare

How a skeptical Ohio family found plenty to like in health care reform

By Steven Brill

The Secret Life Of Bed Bugs: Study Reveals Seasonal Trends in Growth

Bed bug infestations are a nightmare for homeowners. And residents of Philadelphia are familiar with the pain, since reports of infestations in the city have increased over the years.A team of Penn Medicine researchers are...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

A New Blood Test to Diagnose Concussions On The Field

A protein could signal the first signs of brain changes due to a concussion.

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Brain Death Really Is Death

Concepts matter in medicine. This could not be more obvious than in the utter confusion on display over the concepts of ‘brain death’ and ‘life support technology’ that has resulted in two dead bodies being...

By Arthur Caplan and David Magnus

New Cures For Old Ailments

Some of our most common chronic illnesses will get fresh therapies

By Alice Park

The Doctor Will Skype You Now

Telemedicine apps aim to replace nonemergency visits

By Alexandra Sifferlin

The Angelina Effect

Her preventive mastectomy raises important issues about genes, health and risk

By Alice Park

Stalking a Silent Killer: Photos From the Early Fight Against Cancer

Photos chronicling the battle against cancer in the middle part of the 20th century -- when a cure seemed within reach.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Practice of Medicine, Perfected: Portrait of a Blind French Doctor, 1953

With the Obamacare debate far from settled, LIFE offers up one of its own favorite pictures of a doctor and asks, "Isn't this how medicine is meant to be practiced?"

By Ben Cosgrove

'Drama of Life Before Birth': Lennart Nilsson's Landmark 1965 Photo Essay

With the news that a woman in Sweden has given birth with a transplanted womb, LIFE recalls Lennart Nilsson's mind-boggling "Drama of Life Before Birth" photographs.

By Ben Cosgrove

Control of Life: Pictures From a Medical Revolution, 1965

LIFE.com republishes part of a 1965 LIFE magazine series that grappled with some of the era's most exciting and troubling advances in science and medicine.

By Ben Cosgrove

W. Eugene Smith's Landmark Portrait: 'Country Doctor'

'Country Doctor' was an instant classic when first published in LIFE in 1948, establishing W. Eugene Smith as a master of the photo essay

By Ben Cosgrove

Smoking and Erectile Dysfunction: Quitting Helps

Forget Viagra. Research suggests that for firmer, faster erections, men should quit smoking. Scientists have found that men who successfully kick cigarettes can have thicker, more rigid erections and reached maximal arousal five times faster...

By Maia Szalavitz

Healing the Hurt

Finding new ways to treat pain

By Alice Park
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