On Oct. 4, 2021, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center announced it had successfully renewed its National…
A tomb illustration in Memphis, Egypt, depictded a patient being bled from the foot and neck. Though the…
World’s oldest evidence dating to 23000 BCE for the earliest small-scale plant cultivation was discovered by Dani Nadel…
On Oct. 4, 2021, the the Secretary of Defense directed the mandatory vaccination of Service members against the…
On Oct. 4, 2021, Dynavax Technologies and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced Dynavax had executed an…
On Oct. 4, 2021, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem…
On Oct. 4, 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)…
On Oct. 4, 2021, ACON Laboratories announced that its Flowflexﾙ COVID-19 Antigen Home Test had been authorized for…
Earliest known evidence of cheese making was found in Croatia dated to 7200 BCE. Residues from sherds of…
Archeological evidence points to human use of pigeons as a food source as early as 10,000 years ago…
Around 8000 BCE, farmers in China, Egypt and Sumeria began using fermentation to produce cheese and wine. One…
Around 100 BCE, Chinese growers used powdered chrysanthemum (pyrethrins) as the first insecticide.
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1754 BCE), one of the oldest legal texts in the world, prescribes…
The earliest physical trace of beer dates back to the late fourth millennium BC in present day Iran…
In 583 BCE, the Council of Lyons in Lyon, France restricted lepers from freely associating with healthy persons.
Around 500 BCE, Hippocrates, a pioneering physician in the history of Medicine, and considered as the principal author…
Around 600 BCE, Chinese healers created the first antibiotic – moldy soybean curds – to treat boils.
The Torah offered instructions for isolating lepers, the first published guidance for health confinement occurred around 400-600 BCE.
In the 16th century BCE the Phoenicians started disseminating the olive throughout the Greek isles, later introducing it…
On Oct. 2, 2021, the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine was announced as the home to the…
On Oct. 1, 2021, Kite, a Gilead Company, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted approval…
On Oct. 1, 2021, LabCorp announced that it had received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food…
On Oct. 1, 2021, Humanigen announced it had submitted all the planned modules as well as a risk…
On Oct. 1, 2021, Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that molnupiravir (MK-4482, EIDD-2801), an investigational oral antiviral medicine,…
On Sept. 30, 2021, the WHO announced that fifteen African countries – nearly a third of the continent’s…
On Sept. 30, 2021, RELIEF THERAPEUTICS reported that the parent company of its U.S. collaboration partner, NRx Pharmaceuticals,…
On Sept. 30, 2021, Trevena announced data from 30 patients enrolled in the proof-of-concept study of TRV027, the…
On Sept. 30 2021, Siemens Healthineers announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510 (k) clearance of the…
This cartoon illustrates the various issues facing individuals across the U.S. who are vaccinated against COVID-19 verus those…
On Sept. 29, 2021, Regeneron announced that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published positive detailed results…