The ability to heal is an ancient and respected art. The practice of medicine, from binding wounds to folk remedies for diseases, date back thousands of years. In the twentieth century, major advances ...

The expansion of medical schools allowed many more people to be able to practice medicine and to spread its availability into underserved communities. With the desegregation of universities across the ...

Edith Mae Irby was about 7-years-old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Arkansas. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, ...

Dr. Edith Irby Jones broke barriers in medicine, becoming the first African American to graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine and the first woman elected president of the ...

The ability to heal is an ancient and respected art. The practice of medicine, from binding wounds to folk remedies for diseases, date back thousands of years. In the 20th century, major advances were ...