A BMJ investigation is delving once again into questions over the quality and conduct of the PLATO trial that launched ticagrelor (Brilinta; AstraZeneca) 15 years ago. It’s also reinvigorating a ...

Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is professor emeritus of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. This photo is from about 2017. (Courtesy Photo) Are there ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Plato was a fighter. This is not a metaphor. The historian Diogenes Laërtius tells us that Platon, meaning "broad-shouldered," was the philosopher’s wrestling nickname. As a prominent aristocrat, ...

Dana Plato starred in one of the most recognizable sitcoms of the of the 1970s and '80s: Diff’rent Strokes But amid a career reliant on comic timing, a dark tragedy took hold when Plato died at age 34 ...