Hektoen International https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Volume 18, Issue 2 – Spring 2026 Women in Medicine Travel & Gardens Nephrology and Hypertension War & Veterans Russia’s “Great Patriotic War” and its generals New Arrivals Asia Kumbhakarna, a sleeping giant: A medico-mythological exploration Hiroshima: Are its lessons fading? Personal Narratives Beyond the fingerstick Nephrology in 10 steps Hospitals of Note Gallery Fiction Tuesday: Social admit Ethics End of Life Covid-19 Books & Reviews Book review: Alain de Botton’s <i>The Pleasures and Sorrow of Work</i> Birth, Pregnancy, & Obstetrics Blood Art Essays Africa Chicago Medicine Vignettes at Large Literary Vignettes The vindictive departmental chairman: A hospital tale of the 1970s Moments in History—Vignettes Art Flashes & Vignettes The death of Emperor Caesar Augustus Surgery Max Thorek: An ignored surgical superstar Literary Essays Proust’s medical madeleine: Medicine and the making of <i>À la recherche du temps perdu</i> Did Queen Anne have systemic lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome? 2026 Hektoen Essay Contest A collective narrative of Black women physicians in the United States Guidelines for the 2021 Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition John Hughlings Jackson Origins of the Pap smear The discoverers of aspirin Anatomy My second birthday—or date to die? Derek Ernest Denny-Brown Healing in the face of cultural devastation Diary of a doctor The death of Joseph Stalin