“Science, health and medicine are vibrant topics of public history,” said Thomas Cauvin, President of the International Federation for Public History.

Fiocruz researchers argue that tobacco consumption in Brazil goes in the opposite direction to global trend, which is the migration of the problem of tobacco from the developed countries to low income regions.

In this interview to our blog, Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard University Allan M. Brandt said that the cigarette remains today the most deadly, legal product sold around the world.

Our journal will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2019. In the editor’s note of our current issue, science editors André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto reflected on the progress made so far and the hurdles still to be overcome.

In this interview to our blog the Professor of History at the University of Virginia Christian McMillen talks about the main challenges of tuberculosis control in developing countries today.

An interview with Dr Susan M. Reverby, Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.

The current issue of HCSM (vol.24 no.4 Oct./Dec. 2017) features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to birth defects.

Mariano Plotkin (Conicet, Universidad Tres de Febrero) and Jane Russo (Instituto de Medicina Social UERJ) are the guest editor`s of the new suplement of HCS-Manguinhos.

An interview with Dr. Michael Knipper, of the University of Giessen, about Germany’s recent elections and immigration policies.

A brief video with Staffan Müller-Wille, editor of the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, about open access.