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December 12, 2016:(1) (1204) Egyptian rabbi and physician Maimonides passes away. In his writings, he described a number of topics including asthma, diabetes, hepatitis,...

November 3:(1) (1633) Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini was born. He is known for his contributions to the field of occupational diseases and for advocating...

October 11:(1) (1758) German physician and astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers is born. During the day he would tend to his patients, and at...

September 16(1) (1651) German naturalist, physician, and writer Engelbert Kaempfer was born. He was known for traveling to different countries to study plants and...

August 25(1) (1841) Swiss physician and medical researcher Emil Theodor Kocher is born. He won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for...

The FDA has released a useful consumer guide on prescription and over-the-counter drugs that have been approved to treat seasonal allergy in children. Seasonal allergic...

The 20th century witnessed the development of aerosol medicines; these drugs are delivered via a notably different route than more commonly used oral tablets,...

Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is an inflammatory disorder that affects the lower gastrointestinal tract. Known medically as Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), UC strikes the...