And among them stands out one particular category of leaders: empress dowagers. From Japan, to China, to Eastern Europe, ...

A pavilion in Cining Gong garden in the Palace Museum.[Photo by Wang Kaihao/China Daily] In the mid-19th century the empire's power declined sharply, and empress dowagers moved out of the palace ...

A team of Boston researchers, led by an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has received a $2.7 million federal grant to investigate hyperkyphosis, also known as “Dowagers ...