Meet Tetinebefou—the wizard-doctor, priest, and royal dentist—whose newly discovered tomb reveals dazzling secrets about ...

(CNN) — Cancer is often regarded as a disease of the modern age. However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence from a skull ...

Ancient Egypt (3300BC to 525BC) is where we first see the dawn of what, today, we call "medical care". The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization on this planet. Egyptians thought gods ...

A team of French and Swiss archaeologists has unearthed a remarkable Egyptian tomb dating back over 4,100 years. The burial site belonged to Tetinebefou, a royal physician whose wide-ranging medical ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population has dismissed widespread online rumours alleging the emergence of a new respiratory ...

Ancient medicine has evolved over time, some practices were bizarre, whereas some we use even now, from the concept of informed consent to several medicinal ingredients. Decades and centuries of ...

Medical education in Egypt differs significantly from in the U.S., largely due to limited access to advanced technology and equipment, Kalliny said. To bridge this gap, Rowan and AASTMT plan to launch ...

In a modest clinic inside a Cairo medical center, Egyptian physiotherapist and acupuncturist Abir El-Naggar methodically arranges her acupuncture needles and cupping tools. With more than 20 years of ...

In the Nile Valley, which teems with many strange forms of lower animal life, lives a terrifying snail. It spreads a parasitic disease, schistosomiasis, which has afflicted Egyptians since the ...

A Government doctor in the little village of Al Korein, north of Cairo, reported some patients with vomiting, cramps and diarrhea. Four days later, ancient, crowded Egypt knew that it had an outbreak ...