Nurse presents a brief history of vaccines and discusses the effect that immunizations have had on world health.

Academic society is devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine and health professions. Find membership and meetings information.

Traces the development of medicine through printed works from the start of the 19th century to the quackery movements.

Find this newsletter on health-care-related terminology, standards, and medical coding. Includes articles on HIPPA code sets.

Organization founded in 1986 aims to promote the study of the medical discipline. Learn about upcoming events.

Exhaustive directory of medical history available online. Find subjects alphabetically by category.

Photographic exhibit features images of the control and prevention of diseases, biomedical research and substance abuse.

Encyclopedia presents a biography of the nobel-prize winning engineer credited with the invention of the CAT-scan.

Nearly 60,000 images drawn from the collection of the History of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine.

Presents a history not only of men in the nursing profession, but of the profession in general. Begins with the first nursing school in 250 BC.

Lengthy encyclopedia article delves into the history of medicine, beginning with primitive medicine and magic and ending with modern advances.