The University of Manchester and the Johns Hopkins University, are holding a meeting in Manchester in June 2015 to bring together historians, social scientists, and the policy community to engage in a dialogue on how History might inform, and contribute to the transformation of medical education and practice.

Online collection from Harvard University delivers maps, photographs, and documents on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.

Gastroenterologist Dr. Joffre Marcondes de Rezende contributed to medicine relating the Megaesophagus condition to Chagas disease.