We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months ...
A fresh analysis of an old scourge suggests smallpox likely slipped into Australia not via sick sailors, but via jars of ...
Two new studies find that British colonists arriving via ship in the late 18th century likely introduced smallpox, which ...
Researchers say British colonization of Australia may have killed millions after smallpox arrived with the First Fleet ...
More than 40 Continental soldiers finally laid to rest with military honors in New York earlier this year were likely members of the First Pennsylvania Battalion during the ...
As Massachusetts prepares to mark America’s 250th anniversary, the state of firsts faces a familiar question: Is it still ...
It is difficult to sum up, or even rank, 2 1/2 centuries’ worth of medical accomplishments in the U.S. While some might think of cutting-edge, snazzy technological achievements, James Gutierrez, MD, ...
There is a reason that vaccines are widely considered to be the greatest public health tool after sanitation,” Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox News D ...
A John Carter Brown Library exhibition explores events and milestones of 1776, from the signing of the Declaration of ...
The soldiers were originally buried in a "Poor and Strangers Burial Ground" and moved to their current location in the 1850s. A marker with the names of the identified soldiers will be placed at the ...
Existing, single-family home sales increased 5.1 percent year over year to 268,810 in May on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis and were down 3.1 percent from 277,360 in April. The statewide ...