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This Jewish Coney Island “Incubator Doctor” Saved Thousands of Premature Babies

If you were born poor and premature in early 20th-century New York City, your chances for survival were slim. Few American hospitals had incubators, and the mortality rate for preemies was staggering. A young Jewish entrepreneur masquerading as a doctor stepped in to fill that gap. Born Michael Cohen in a small town called Krotoszyn […]

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Marvel's Newest (and Jewiest?) Superhero Has Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Marvel’s Newest Superhero Has Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Superman’s weakness is kryptonite. Wonder Woman is invincible unless you touch her bulletproof bracelets. And Samarium can protect anyone, as long as you don’t make fun of his digestion. This is not a joke. Samarium is part of a revolutionary awareness campaign developed for and by people living with inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. The […]

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The Ancient Hebrew Version of the Hippocratic Oath

Filled with ideas like exercise, healthy eating, and proper hygiene, parts of the earliest medical book written in Hebrew sound quite modern. But there’s plenty in the Sefer Refuot—Book of Medicines—that reads a bit more ancient. The treatise, ascribed to the physician Asaph ben Berechiah, who lived in Israel between 4 and 6 CE, discusses […]

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This Jewish Coney Island “Incubator Doctor” Saved Thousands of Premature Babies

Marvel’s Newest Superhero Has Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The Ancient Hebrew Version of the Hippocratic Oath

Communist Jew + Muslim Indian = Affordable Health Care

The Small Town Jew Who Pioneered Sex-Change Surgery

How Nazis Were Fooled by a Fake Typhus Epidemic

Israeli researchers grow marijuana without a high

The Eulogizer: Nobel Prize winner Baruj Benacerraf, the Lucian Freud app

Med students may be buying murdered Jews’ bones

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