MEDICINE

During one of his surgeries, a patient famously cried, “I smell burnt toast!”

The Confederate Army general's death stumped his doctors—but now we might have a clue about what happened.

As an optometrist working in turn-of-the-20th-century San Francisco, George Mayerle encountered plenty of immigrant patients who weren't comfortable reading Roman scripts. So he made a whole new test for them.

It's the thinnest part of the skull … which is why Maori warriors crafted a special weapon to crush it.

In a new study, being exposed to the main ingredient in Prozac radically altered the behavior of crabs.

Its developers hope it sparks the next generation of total artificial hearts.

He felt the lobotomy was “only a little more dangerous than an operation to remove an infected tooth."

Thanks to George Pinker, royal babies are born in the hospital, not the palace.

It's hard to pick a favorite from these off-the-wall studies exploring topics like whether cats can be both solid and liquid, the physics of walking backwards with coffee, and the brain activity of people who are grossed out by cheese.

A new Danish study links high HDL with higher, not lower, mortality risk.

Time is of the essence in diagnosing and treating Lyme disease.

Though you might not often think about them, lymph nodes are crucial for your immune system.