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Warts were the most common ailment recorded in a 1930s' schools' survey of Irish folk cures. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection /CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

Snails, bacon and prayer: how our ancestors dealt with warts

Folklore / 09 Mar

The drugs do work

5 tips to make the most of your medicines

Health / 14 Jan

Historical re-enactment of a surgeon operating on an archer who was wounded during an attack by the Mamluks on the monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers (1250-1291) in Acre in Israel. Photo: DeAgostini/ Getty Images

What was it like to go to the doctor in medieval Ireland?

Medicine / 14 Nov 19

"Despite significant interest around cutting edge technologies, the older, less expensive drugs work very effectively in many cases"

How to deliver new medicine without bankrupting the health system

Medicine / 04 Apr 19

Victims of an IRA bomb in 1973. Photo: David Cairns/Getty Images

How Northern Ireland's doctors and nurses coped with the Troubles

The Troubles / 03 Apr 19

"Most did not expect the treatment to work. They simply hoped it would."

The placebo effect: trick or treat?

Health / 03 Dec 18

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who have been in hospital after being found unconscious outside a shopping centre in Salisbury

A short history of deadly potions and poisons

Poison / 09 Mar 18

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