Pergamon’s setting strengthens the interpretation. The city was closely tied to the sanctuary of Asclepius and long had a reputation for healing. The Asklepion at Pergamon became one of antiquity’s ...

A small Roman glass flask, forgotten for centuries in the soil of Pergamon, one of the great medical centers of the ancient ...

Parenteral nutrition (PN)-associated cholestasis (PNAC) is frequently diagnosed in premature infants; however, not all ...

DNA analysis of mummified feces reveals two pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures ate a wide variety of plants, like maize, sweet potato, and peanuts -- and tobacco and cotton traces were detected too, ...

Dear Dr. Gott: My son's future wife gave him some pills that are supposed to rid his body of its "parasites." He also was supposed to drink some special tea that cleans out his system. She declares ...