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The Important Reason We Label Generations & The Strange Stories of Medical Breakthroughs

Something You Should Know

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The History of Heart Disease

Edward Jenner is credited with developing vaccination. He had heard that milkmaids who kind of got this innocuous infection with cowpox from milking cows often never would get smallpox, which is a deadly disease. Heart disease is still the number one killer despite the major advances we've made.

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