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First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An ICU physician on the moral dilemmas mechanical ventilators can raise

First Opinion By Hannah Wunsch

That ‘damn machine’: the dark side of mechanical ventilators in the ICU

First Opinion By Jonathan S. Jones

Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War

In the Lab By Elizabeth Cooney

Civil War vaccination kits, discovered in a drawer, yield genetic clues to how smallpox was defeated

First Opinion By Michael L. Millenson

After 50 years of ‘health crisis,’ chuck the Chicken Little rhetoric

Health By Leah Samuel

6 medical innovations that moved from the battlefield to mainstream medicine