Health Lead story Vipeholm's result survived. Its experiment should not be redeemed A historiography debate map of the Vipeholm sugar experiments: why their caries findings endured, why institutional control was inseparable from exploitation, and why later evidence can preserve a conclusion without redeeming the study.
Health Jul. 30 Dorothy Horstmann found polio in the bloodstream by sampling before paralysis A biography and microhistory of Dorothy Horstmann's polio research, showing how one early positive blood sample among 111 cases exposed a short viremic window and clarified where vaccine-induced antibodies could interrupt paralysis.
Health Jul. 29 The non-smoking section was never separate air A narrative chronicle of how U.S. passenger cabins became smoke-free: flight attendants turned a movable seating boundary into an occupational-health case, exposure studies showed that smoke crossed it, and Congress replaced partial bans with source control.
Health Jul. 28 The 1952 armchair regimen challenged bed rest before the trials caught up A myth-vs-evidence history of post-heart-attack mobilization: the 1952 armchair regimen challenged weeks of compulsory bed rest, but later comparisons—not one dramatic case series—supported the narrower case for earlier, supervised movement.
