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While the Wright Brothers experimented at Kitty Hawk, a photographer named William Jennings believed he and his friends were making aviation history

Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.

How a favorite local charity of Boston’s Brahmins—parochial and elite—grew into one of our great democratic medical institutions

America has won more Nobel Prizes in medicine than any other nation: it’s easy when you have the money, the technology, and people from every other nation

How our wartime experience conquered a wide range of problems from hemorrhagic shock to yellow fever