A BMJ article urges a revisiting of medical history, arguing that professionalization sidelined women’s roles in shaping ...

Your family’s medical history is one of the most important indicators of your future health and is valuable information for your doctor. Thanksgiving is National Family History day and is a great time ...

Family medical history can serve as a roadmap for our health, so it’s important information to share with your primary care physician. An expert at Baylor College of Medicine explains what to know ...

When you go to the doctor, the first thing you’re asked is, “Do you have a family history of X?” Do you know the answer? Understanding your family medical history might seem excessive, but it can play ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...