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History of the NHS
Many of us are used to having the National Health Service around to care for us when we get sick. But things weren’t always this way. Before 1948, when...

Famous doctors: Christiaan Barnard
Whilst working as a cardiac surgeon in South Africa, Christiaan Barnard made a medical breakthrough with the first heart transplant and was catapulted...

Famous doctors: Benjamin S Carson
Benjamin Carson is an American neurosurgeon who achieved a number of surgical firsts.

Famous doctors: Elizabeth Garrett
In 1836, Elizabeth Garrett was born in Whitechapel, London. Years later, Britain witnessed as she overcame the barriers in her way to become the country’s...

Famous doctors: Hippocrates
Hippocrates was a Greek physician from the 5th century BC. Read on to find out why he is widely known as the father of medicine. Why is he famous? Born...

Famous doctors: Joseph Lister
Discover how Joseph Lister made surgery sterile. He overcame opposition to the germ theory that had been discovered by Ignaz Semmelweis and developed...

Famous doctors: Hamilton Naki
Hamilton Naki was a medical researcher who died on a gardener’s pension. As a black South African, he could not officially practice medicine in the...

Famous doctors: Ambroise Paré
Discover how Ambroise Paré went from being a barber's apprentice to the father of modern surgery. Ambroise Paré was born in France around 1510, the...

Famous doctors: Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician who paved the way for the discovery of germs when he found a cure for Puerperal fever. His discovery was so...

Famous doctors: John Snow
The man who pioneered the cure for cholera. The early years John Snow was born in York in 1813, the son of a coal-yard labourer. At the age of 14 he was...

Famous doctors: Benjamin Spock
The first 'supernanny', Benjamin Spock taught parents to listen to their instincts to bring up happy, healthy children. The early years As the eldest...