Dr. Charles T. Dotter performed the world’s first percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
On Jan. 16, 1964, Dr. Charles T. Dotter at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), considered the father…
On Jan. 16, 1964, Dr. Charles T. Dotter at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), considered the father…
On Jan. 13, 1964, the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine was founded with its origins in…
On Jan. 11, 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first government report that concluded smoking may…
In 1964, Stanford Medicine achieved the first successful clinical application of laser photocoagulation to treat detached retina (retinal).
In 1964, a new herpesvirus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), was discovered in cultured tumor cells derived from a Burkitt…
In 1964, Bernard Rimland, a research psychologist and father of a son with Rimland, published Infantile Autism, a…
In 1964, the anticancer drug melphalan (L-PAM) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In 1964, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to John C. Bailar, Jr. “to recognize distinguished…
In 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) was founded under the National Academy of Science (NAS) charter….
In 1964, plasmapheresis was introduced as a means of collecting plasma for fractionation.
In 1964, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) was established.
In 1964, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, organized in 1948, became the Arthritis Foundation in 1964. Since its…
In 1964, the FAO, backed by the U.N. Special Fund, sets up the Crop Research and Introduction Centre…
In 1964, the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines started the Green Revolution with new strains of…
In 1964, the Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP) was the The Rockefeller Foundationメs first intensive agricultural endeavor begun in…
In 1964, live, further attenuated measles virus vaccine (Lirugen by Pitman Moore-Dow based on the Schwarz strain, derived…
In 1964, a rubella epidemic swept the U.S. resulting in 12.5 million cases of rubella infection, an estimated…
In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of…
In 1964 Stanford Medicine demonstrated electrical stimulation of auditory nerve in deaf patients, paving the way for cochlear…
In 1964, Cook County Hospital’s Hektoen Institute opened in the former John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases, on…
In 1964, Massachusetts General Hospital made practical for the first time the long-term storage of human blood.
In 1964, the anticancer drug Azidothymidine (AZT) was synthesized in Michigan Cancer Foundationメs chemistry lab by Jerome Horwitz,…
In 1964, John N. Couch received the North Carolina Award for Science. Dr. Couch was internationally recognized for…
In 1964, Albert Einstein College of Medicine was the first medical school in the U.S. to establish a…
In 1964, Dr. Petar Alaupovic from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) created a classification and naming system…
In 1964, Dr. Jonas Salk left the University of Pittsburgh to devote his full attention to the Salk…
In 1964, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a bequest by Michael W. McArdle, a…
On Dec. 30, 1963, Dr. Hans Neurath and colleagues at the University of Washington (UW) reported the chemical…
On Oct. 1, 1963 Kurt Amplatz published A Catheter Approach for Cerebral Angiography in Radiology. Amplatz, M.D., who…
On Jul. 10, 1963, the U.S. FDA approved vincristine, a sister drug to vinblastine. The drug was established…