they would face a natural disposition toward certain imbalances, impacting diagnosis and treatment. In the West, Galen’s model of human anatomy, based on the Hippocratic theory, would become the ...

IN the past twenty-five hundred years the number of reviews, commentaries, critiques and translations of the Hippocratic writings is astounding. The effect of these writings in freeing medicine ...

Patient education is just one response to the pressures facing healthcare services worldwide, but its potential may well make it one of the most effective and least costly.

Hippocrates used a person's physique and the seasons to personalize treatments for his patients. The modern scientific industry hopes to use your DNA. Aa Aa Aa In a way, personalized medicine has ...

One of the oldest medical texts in the world is the Ebers Papyrus, a 110-page-long compilation of treatments and cures written in around 1500 BC. The text, found between the legs of a mummified ...