Napa State Hospital has been home to thousands of residents and workers, a four-story Gothic-style castle, historic houses, a dairy, poultry ranch, vegetable gardens, orchards, farms, a cemetery, its ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In the shadows of old wooden bookcases sit jars filled with embalming fluid preserving decades-old brains that have signs of disease caused by tumors, strokes and ulcers. Sarah Halter ...

HIGHLAND >> During its lengthy history, Patton State psychiatric hospital has had thousands of patients, conducted more than 4,500 sterilizations — a practice discontinued years ago, had extensive ...

WOLF LAKE, Ind. (WANE) — A piece of Noble’s County history is being auctioned off. After nearly two decades, the Luckey Hospital Museum and its collection will be sold at auction. The ...

Medical artefacts and archives tracking the history of health care in Nuneaton and Bedworth have helped win a national distinction for the George Eliot Hospital NHS Museum. The project was opened ...

It’s one of the most memorable moments in movie history: silent Chief Bromden smashes a heavy appliance through a barred window to escape from a cruel mental institution in the 1975 classic “One Flew ...

The 2,500-square-foot museum walks visitors through not only the state-run hospital’s checkered history, though there’s plenty of that, but also through the history of psychiatry itself. “I think ...

WOLF LAKE, Ind. (AP) — The owner of a small northern Indiana town's former hospital that's become a medical museum is looking for someone to take it over. The Luckey Hospital Museum building in the ...

If you had to get a finger amputated today, it would be bit of a process. First a skin incision is made revealing blood vessels to be identified and tied off. The tendons are then identified and ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. — The North Dakota State Hospital opened its doors before there was a state of North Dakota. The history of the institution is told through the displays in the North Dakota State ...