In this issue, we explore the forgotten patients in global healthcare settings – the marginalised groups who fall through the ...

A cure for smallpox was never found. But in 1796 English doctor Edward Jenner tested a belief widespread in rural England that milkmaids who’d contracted the relatively mild disease cowpox were immune ...

Here is a closer look. At one point in history, smallpox was “one of the most devastating diseases to humanity.” With the first cases dating as early as 1350 BCE, the disease caused millions of deaths ...

Since Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine in the 1700s, they’ve significantly reduced disease rates around the world and are credited with saving millions of lives—primarily in low ...

On a quiet summer day in 1978, then-40-year-old medical photographer Janet Parker came down with chicken pox, or so she thought. Within nine days, Mrs. Parker was admitted to the hospital, being too ...

From Shakespeare and the Industrial Revolution to innovations in science and the creation of the beautiful game of football, England has made contributions that echo across the globe. St. George’s Day ...

It was Edward Jenner, an Englishman, who would, in 1796, use cowpox to inoculate against smallpox. The word "vaccination" is from vaccinnia, the Latin term for the cowpox virus. "It was as if an ...

Meanwhile, the world was agog with news of a brilliant medical breakthrough pioneered in 1796 by English surgeon Edward Jenner ... the dreaded scourge of smallpox. Soon after, largely due to ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... More than 200 years ago, physician Edward Jenner made a crucial-discovery which led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids who developed ...