An unofficial blog about the National Museum of Health and Medicine (nee the Army Medical Museum) in Silver Spring, MD. Visit for news about the museum, new projects, musing on the history of medicine and neat pictures.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
Measles genotyped from Berlin medical museum specimen
The Virus Buried in a 100-Year-Old Lung
Scientists have managed to sequence the genome of a measles virus that infected a 2-year-old girl who died in 1912.
Sarah Zhang January 9, 2020Wednesday, September 4, 2019
NMHM and research on Einstein's brain
Expert Interest in Albert Einstein's Brain
SEPTEMBER 03, 2019
MD Magazine
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
NMHM digitizing bones
Modernizing Medical Museums through the 3D Digitization of Pathological Specimens
Kristen Pearlstein, Anatomical Collections Manager and Brian Spatola, Anatomical Curator | June 6, 2019
Thursday, August 1, 2019
NMHM 'vampire' skeleton featured in Washington Post
A 'vampire's' remains were found about 30 years ago. Now DNA is giving him new life.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
AFIP and NMHM mentioned in memo as having aliens from Roswell
'Fake' Roswell alien autopsy video was REAL and CIA scientist saw
proof at Pentagon briefing ...
The Sun
... reveals alien forensic tissue and organs were being stored at
Walter Reed-Armed Forces Institute for Pathology Medical Museum in
Washington DC ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9382232/leaked-memo-suggests-fake-roswell-alien-autopsy-video-real-cia-scientist-pentagon-briefing/
proof at Pentagon briefing ...
The Sun
... reveals alien forensic tissue and organs were being stored at
Walter Reed-Armed Forces Institute for Pathology Medical Museum in
Washington DC ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9382232/leaked-memo-suggests-fake-roswell-alien-autopsy-video-real-cia-scientist-pentagon-briefing/
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Indiana Medical History Museum profiled
Former mental hospital houses medical museum https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/former-mental-hospital-houses-medical-museum/article_37504499-04f9-5a9d-bde9-b14b5560fdf8.html
INDIANAPOLIS — In the shadows of old wooden bookcases sit jars filled with embalming fluid preserving decades-old brains that have signs of ...
Sunday, March 24, 2019
NMHM and Dittrick curators on medical equipment
Left to their own devices
A look at the evolution of five now-essential medical tools.
Friday, March 22, 2019 |by Lindsay Kalter, Staff Writer
Friday, February 22, 2019
McGill honors Maude Abbott with a plaque
After honouring 99 men, McGill medical building recognizes pioneer Maude Abbott
Refused entry to McGill medical school because she was a woman, Abbott went on to work for the university
Sarah Leavitt · CBC Feb 21, 2019
NMHM sued for access to collection
Innocence Project sues museum for access to archives on 'tragically flawed' bite-mark evidence
ABA Journal February 21, 2019,
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/innocence-project-files-first-amendment-suit-over-denied-access-to-museums-bite-mark-archivesThe Innocence Project has sued the federal government's National Museum of Health and Medicine for denying it access to archival information on the history of bite-mark analysis.....
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Washington Post's Express paper reviews the National Museum of Health and Medicine
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a fascinating nightmare
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
McGill's Medical Museum opens to public
McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum opens its collection to the public The "Holmes heart" has a special place among the 2,000 specimens in the collection of McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum, which opened its ... |
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