Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax ...

Historian Dan Snow meets Kevin Goodman to learn how battlefield surgery progresses in the 18th and 19th centuries through the Napoleonic War, American Civil War and American Indian Wars. Could ...

Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have lost limbs since Russia’s full-scale ...

A hidden gem on Chicago's North Side is a place where skeletons and skulls aren't scary, they're educational – the International Museum of Surgical Science. "People have heard of us, but they don't ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

During the Vietnam War, most American GIs flew alone, and not with their units, to and from Vietnam aboard a chartered 707 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian ...

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian intelligence soldier doesn’t know how long his clinical death lasted after an explosive detonated beneath him. All Andrii Rubliuk remembers is overwhelming ...