As the Egyptian civilization faded, the Greek one emerged around 700 BC. The Greek civilization prevailed until "the end of antiquity" around 600 AD. The Greeks were great philosophers and their ...

While using ancient Greek medicine as a source of remedies is problematic, drawing on it to understand the doctor/patient relationship is more straightforward. We still say, “Trust me, I’m a doctor”.

As scientific director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions at the Smithsonian, Alain Touwaide is compiling a database of medicinal plants of antiquity. Proficient in 12 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Wholesalers trading medicines across European borders have criticised a suggestion by manufacturers that Greek exports should be restricted to prevent shortages of life-saving drugs ...

Greece's highly uncertain future has forced businesses into a quasi hand-to-mouth existence, with one of the most alarming effects a shortage of medicines, including for the seriously ill.

Over my 54 years, I’ve pinned my hopes on my parents, my teachers, my romantic partners, God. I’m pinning them now on a shrub. It’s called mastic, it grows in particular abundance on the Greek island ...

Primitive Roman medicine.--Early Roman medicine.--Origins of Greek physiology--Ionian and Italo-Sicilian.--Alexandrian medicine.--Settlement of Greek physicians in ...

The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine more than 2,000 years ago. Although we now have a far more detailed and accurate picture of medicine, the ancient ...

Helen King has received funding from the Wellcome Trust. The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine more than 2,000 years ago. But since then our understanding ...