Whoever started putting the ancient Greek icon on American public health officers’ uniforms had it confused with another snake-and-staff symbol. The caduceus is the “Born in the U.S.A.” of Greek ...

The U.S. Army Medical Corps chose the caduceus as its symbol in 1902. "Since then the politics of health care have grown more twisted and tangled than the two snakes entwined around the staff in a ...

A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here claiming that many doctors in the country were by mistake using the Greek symbol Caduceus, consisting of a ...

The medical symbol of serpents wrapped around a staff is a familiar one in the field, decorating pharmaceutical packaging and hospitals alike. Snake bites are generally bad news so the animal might ...

The caduceus is the “Born in the U.S.A.” of Greek iconography: Everyone seems to think it stands for something it doesn’t.