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The Sun, the Moon, and the Medical Museum

A Deep Dive into Decompression Sickness: Advancements in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Navy Divers

It's Electric! Electrotherapy and Bioelectricity on Display at NMHM

To 'set the skies ablaze with life and promise': WWII Flight Nurses

Col. James Earle Ash: A Lifetime of Accomplishments

John Paul Jones: Body Identification in 1905

A Rather Unusual Hat

Beef, Bread, and Coffee: Food Innovations during World War I

Walter Reed - A Name for the Ages

Maurice Hilleman: The Man Who Predicted a Pandemic

Histology Lab Operations: The Job of the Histotechnician in Preparing Microscopic Tissue

A Glimpse of the University of Wisconsin Welker Comparative Brain Collection at the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Maj. Paul R. Hawley: A Surgical Improvisation in Nicaragua, 1931

Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles: His Contribution to the Army Medical Museum

Otological Trauma During World War II

Valley Forge Army Hospital: 30 Years of Military Medical Care

"Of national importance:" On This Museum's Home for 20 Years at Ford's Theatre

Helen R. Purtle: An Unsung Hero of the Medical Museum

Dr. William Williams Keen, Jr.: A Lifelong Military Surgeon and American Medicine Titan

Bert Jones Returns Home

Private Julius Fabry: A Case of Osteomyelitis

Preserving Specimens: Wet Tissue Conservation

Threading the Eye of the… Hip? The Surgical Case of Major Henry A. Barnum

Typhoid Mary/Mary Mallon: An Asymptomatic Carrier of Salmonella typhi

Surgical Removal of Foreign Bodies from the Heart

158 Years Later: The Many Homes of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

In the Spirit of Humanity: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps and Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake

Vietnam, 1970: A Glimpse Into Trauma Surgery

Causalgia: 'The Most Terrible of All the Tortures'

The Battle Against Germs: World War II Public Health Posters

Exploding Skeletons: Beauchêne Preparations at the Army Medical Museum

Roy G. Biv Visits the National Museum of Health and Medicine–Or, Isaac Newton and Colors in the Collection

A Time of Giving

Samuel Bookatz: Roaming Artist Finds his Place in the Military

Veteran Stories: World War I Letters from the Medical Museum Archives

Reciprocal Relationships: Artists and Medical Museum Collections

U.S. Army Hospital Ship J.K. Barnes and 8-Foot Model

HAM: The First Astrochimp

100 Years of Military Medical Innovations at the 1876 International Exposition

U.S. Military Immunization: The Fight against Infectious Diseases

Army Medical Museum Pathologist still has a Hand in Collections Today

Paul Revere and Joseph Warren: An Early Case of Forensic Identification

Loans Expand the Reach of Military Medical Innovations Beyond Museum Walls

Modernizing Medical Museums through the 3D Digitization of Pathological Specimens

Volunteers: The Heart of NMHM

Artifacts Recall the History of Military Hearing and Speech Health

Microscopical Investigation: Impressions from Robert Hooke's Microscope

National Museum of Health and Medicine Receives Thermal Test Manikin from the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Presenting Visual Records of Internal Trauma: A Temporary Art Therapy Exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Illuminating the History and Process of Photomicrography at the National Museum of Health and Medicine