Thalidomide was a pharmaceutical innovation that caused severe birth defects.

Theranos promised to make blood-testing easier, cheaper and less painful.

Do you sometimes feel nervous, irritable or sad? If you are a woman, then you might suffer from hysteria.

A lobotomy was a surgical procedure to treat psychiatric symptoms by destroying brain tissue in the prefrontal cortex.

The biggest advantage was that the insulin no longer needed to be injected with syringes.