In 1969, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was founded in Lubbock, Texas. In 1974 construction began on…
In 1969, Dr. Ed Webster joined the Swedish Tumor Institute as its first chemotherapy oncologist. The Instutute opened…
In 1969, Advanced Technology Laboratories was founded in 1969 and became one of the leading diagnostic ultrasound imaging…
On Dec. 3, 1968, the Medical University of South Carolina (MCSC) performed its first organ transplant (renal) and…
On Nov. 26, 1968, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a second live, further attenuated measles…
In 1968, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to William G. Young “to recognize distinguished services…
On May 3, 1968, Denton Cooley at Baylor University College of Medicine transplanted the heart of a fifteen…
On Apr. 7, 1968, the FDA Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and Treasury Department Bureau of Narcotics were…
On Mar. 8, 1968, the term Green Revolution was coined by William Gaud during a speech as administrator…
In March 1968, a reorganization of federal health programs placed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…
The 1968 pandemic, also known as the Hong Kong flu, was caused by an influenza A (H3N2) virus…
In 1968, Ted Stevens, Alaska’s senior Senator, was elected to the U.S. Congress. His tenure made him the…
In 1968, Dr. Josef Rosch developed the technique of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). He also introduced embolic…
In 1968, The FAO created a Crop Ecology and Genetic Resources Unit to act as a clearinghouse for…
In 1968, The FDA formed the Drug Efficacy Study Implementation (DESI) to implement recommendations of the National Academy…
In 1968, Animal Drug Amendments placed all regulation of new animal drugs under one section of the Food,…
In 1968, Russia renamed the Lenin All-Union Institute of Plant Industry the N.I.Vavilov All-Union Institute of Plant Industry…
In 1968, Har Gobind Khorana won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his…
In 1968, Merck Frosst Laboratories was created to act as the service company to the two sales companies…
In 1968, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered that insulin resistance is the principal physiologic characteristic of mild type-II diabetes…
In 1968, University of California, San Diego Medical Center surgeons performed the region’s first kidney transplant.
In 1968, a pandemic was caused by an influenza A (H3N2) virus comprised of two genes from an…
In 1968, The first identified cases of Pontiac fever occurred in Pontiac, Michigan, among people who worked at…
In 1968, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded with famine relief in Nigeria during…
In 1968, the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) became a bureau of the U. S. Public Health Service.
In 1968, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) started a tuberculosis surveillance system in the…
In 1968, Medtronic annual sales skyrocketed to more than $12 million, with the company reporting net income in…
In 1968, the world’s first successful bone-marrow transplant was completed at the University of Minnesota Hospital under the…
In 1968, the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental Medicine was established in recognition of the increasing need…
In 1968, Gamborg Medium was developed by O.L. Gamborg as a medium of mineral salts, sucrose, vitamins and…