On May 14, 2024, Roche announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its human papillomavirus…
In 1647, the first outbreak of yellow fever occurred on the island of Barbados.
In 1628, British physician William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood. Blood transfusion was attempted soon after.
In 1628, William Harvey, an English physician, published the “De Motu Cordis” (On the Motion of the Heart…
In 1604, Dutch optician Zacharias Janssen is recognized as the inventor the compound microscope. Though rudimentary, the Janssen…
In 1520, countless microbes moved overseas on turkeys imported into Europe from America, on orange trees into Portugal…
Caricature of Darwin’s ‘theory of natural selection’ in the Punch almanac for 1882, published at the end of…
“A Venerable Orang-outang”, a caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape published in The Hornet, a satirical magazine,…
Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month celebrates the scientific accomplishments of several firsts, from the first chemo…
“Say I Don’t Smoke, You’ll be in Good Company” was published by the Irish Cancer Society (ca. 1987).
“Break the Habit!,” A quit smoking poster published by the New York State Department of Health, 1989.
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On May 10, 2024, Novavax announced that it had entered into a co-exclusive licensing agreement with Sanofi. The…
On May 1, 2024, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program announced that it…
On May 1, 2024, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a review in JAMA that…
On Apr. 30, 2024, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that all women get screened for…
On Apr. 30, 2024, a meta-analysis of six randomized controlled trials in JAMA Neurology found no increase in seizures in…
On Apr. 30, 2024, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and collaborators announced they had discovered over 100…
On Apr. 29, 2024, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) reported a patient with the first documented case of…
On Apr. 26, 2024, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced it had approved awarding nearly $31…
On Apr. 26, 2024, an international team of researchers led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released an…
On Apr. 26, 2024, Pfizer announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved BEQVEZ™ (fidanacogene…
On Apr. 26, 2024, engineers at Washington University in St. Louis announced a new imaging technique that give…
On Apr. 26, 2024, the Colorado Dept. of Agriculture reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National…
On Apr. 24, 2024, surgeons at New York University Langone Health announced they had performed the first combined…
On Apr. 23, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that nearly all (99%) of the…
On Apr. 22, 2024, Moderna announced a contract with the Ministry of Health in Brazil (Ministerio da Saude)…
On Apr. 21, 2024, United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories made available 239…
On Apr. 17, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its genetic research partners announced the birth…
On Apr. 16, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported that the COVID-19 vaccines made…