Dr. Howard Markel

In today's socially mediated 24/7 news cycle, it is difficult to imagine just how taboo the topic of prescription opiate…

This minor genius of mirth lost his left eye at the age of 6.

On Sept. 9, 1921, a young actress named Virginia Rappe died of a ruptured urinary bladder, days after a Labor…

On a Sunday morning, the famed writer awoke early in a discombobulated and distressed mood. The rest is literary history…

Today would have been the 91st birthday of Anne Frank, the girl who left behind a tattered, hidden diary, now…

It's the most vexing phase of an epidemic -- once an illness peters out, healthy people begin to place it…

It is a query that has invited many diagnoses over the last 200 years.

The turmoil of Groucho's last few years are all too familiar to adult children everywhere who are concerned with the…

A singer of remarkable power and range, Garland was one of the brightest stars. But she also suffered a lifetime…

Before her early death of pancreatic cancer, the groundbreaking writer made history with "A Raisin in the Sun."