MEDICINE

The nagging pain in your neck may feel tight, but it's knot what you think.

Queen Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and FDR once owned one of Fleming's penicillin mold samples. Now you can, too.

Can an octogenarian really just collapse from the wear and tear of life?

In the latest episode of The List Show, we’re tackling some fun facts—and the occasional harsh truth—about the careers you imagined for yourself as a kid.

All of the WHO's declarations of emergency since 2007 have been for viral diseases, including the most recent one for mpox.

Ailments as diverse as tooth decay and malaria have caused suffering for thousands, even millions, of years—and they’re not done with us yet.

In events where success or failure can be measured in tiny increments, it’s not surprising athletes will turn to any potential advantage. But does cupping actually work?

These gory yet fascinating reads delve into the weirdest chapters of medical history, from the dancing plague of 1518 to the bizarre saga of Typhoid Mary.

From the Founding Father who stuck whalebone where he shouldn’t have to the only known woman to have given herself a C-section.

The surgical extraction of the tonsils was a hallmark of a 1950s childhood, but now the operation is not nearly as common.

Here’s everything you ever wondered about ‘stat’: its meaning, its origins, and whether ER doctors really shout it all the time.

There's a reason that cough syrup you're trying to choke down tastes like cherry.