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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins and Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams testified on vaccines before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions…

Alexandra Lord, medicine and science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, discussed the museum’s coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.

University of California at Berkeley historian of medicine Elena Conis talked about the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s and the lessons that its distribution and use can teach…

Dr. Caleb Alexander, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting drug and alcohol addiction.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) spoke on the floor about immigration laws preventing foreign medical students studying in the U.S. from practicing medicine in America for two years after…

This 1958 American Medical Association “March of Medicine” program highlights American doctors working abroad and includes an introduction by Vice President Nixon. In remote locations…

Journalist Lawrence Weschler talked about his book, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks, in which he profiled the late neurologist and author Oliver Sacks.…

American Telemedicine Association president-elect Dr. Joseph Kvedar talked about efforts to expand the use of telemedicine and how virtual care can help during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Jeremy Brown of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Emergency Care talked about his book on the history of influenza, Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest…

Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R), the first member of Congress to test positive for coronavirus, opened this special “Washington Journal” primetime edition on the coronavirus pandemic. He talked about…

Heritage Foundation Director of Domestic Policy Studies Marie Fishpaw discussed the use of telemedicine services during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the top hospitals in America. Brothers William and Charlie Mayo founded the clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1889. Matt Dacy and Renee Ziemer talked about…

U.S. Army Medical Department Museum director George Wunderlich shared stories of army medics in times of war. He talked about a nurse killed in Vietnam, a World War II dentist who…

Rosemary Gibson, author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, discussed the shortage of essential lifesaving drugs in U.S. hospitals and its impact…

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, talked about NIH projects. Topics included advances made through the Human Genome Project, especially on cancer and…

Medical practitioners and experts examined challenges in research and innovation at a day-long forum hosted by Research!America. In this panel, women researchers spoke about professional…

Dr. Francis Collins and other National Institutes of Health leaders testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on funding and research efforts. They witnesses addressed the…

Retired infectious disease specialist Dr. Jon Willen talked about Charles Leale, the first doctor to treat the mortally wounded Abraham Lincoln after actor John Wilkes Booth shot him while he…

Dickinson College professor Jim Hoefler taught a class about end of life care and perceptions of death in the United States since the 1800s. He explored how changes in medical practices and…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel talked about his book, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, in which he explored the…