Ancient Greek medicine is probably the basis of modern scientific medicine. The first schools to develop in Greece were in Sicilly and Calabria, in what today is Italy.

Ancient Greeks gifted India numerous things and one of the greatest was the ancient Greek art of medicine, or "Unani" as ...

Philotimo is a Greek word that is without definition but impacts the world beyond imagination. The word philotimo comes from the Greek root words “filos,” meaning friend, and “timi ...

Around 400 B.C., Hippocrates is said to have named masses of cancerous cells karkinos -- Greek for crab. Science and medical historian Howard Markel discusses a few hypotheses on why Hippocrates ...

As the blue-scrubs business of medical research replaces the blue-collar railway business in Roanoke, a book about the very beginnings of a scientific approach to medicine seems appropriate.

Ancient medicine has evolved over time, some practices were bizarre, whereas some we use even now, from the concept of informed consent to several medicinal ingredients.

Indeed, the word cannot be translated precisely to any other language,“ said Vassilios P Vertoudakis, lecturer in Ancient Greek philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.