In 1963, the U.S. Congress established the Immunization Grant Program; polio incidence plummeted to only 396 reported cases…
In 1963, Eugene Pleasants (E.P.) Odin wrote Ecology, the first textbook based on the principles of ecology.
In 1963, the National Cancer Institute initiated a pilot study to test MOPP (Mechlorethamine, Vincristine, Procarbazine, Prednisone) chemotherapy…
In 1963, the first measles vaccines were licensed in 1963. Both vaccines were an inactivated (ﾓkilledﾔ) and a…
In 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the “discoveries concernning…
In 1963, In 1963, Tyson Feed and Hatchery went public and sold 100,000 shares of stock for $10.50…
In 1963, the first biomedical and environmental research program began at Livermore. John Gofman, a distinguished professor at…
In 1963, Yale New Haven Hospital (then Grace-New Haven) installed the first linear accelerator in Connecticut for cancer…
In 1963, the Aedes aegypti Eradication Branch was established to rid the Americas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito…
In 1963, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the…
In 1963, Australian pathologist R.D.K. Reye first described this syndrome. National surveillance led to strict warnings regarding aspirin…
In 1963, the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University – St. Louis installed the Picker Cobalt 60,…
In 1963, The Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York Study began. HIP was the first randomized…
In 1963, The Medical College of Virginia Medical Education Building (named for William T. Sanger in 1970) opened.
On Oct. 25, 1962, The Human Cancer Virus Task Force held its first meeting. The task force, of…
On Oct. 21, 1962, Jere E. Goyan, Ph.D., becomes commissioner of food and drugs. Goyan was the first…
On Oct. 18, 1962, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Francis Crick, James…
On Oct. 13, 1962, the groundbreaking ceremony for the McArdle Cancer Research Institute building was held. The construction…
On Oct. 10, 1962, the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments were signed into law by President Kennedy. The Legislation was…
On Jul. 15, 1962, Thalidomide, a new sleeping pill developed by the German company Grunenthal, was found to…
On Jun. 1, 1962, Kurt Amplatz and Richard Harner published “A New Subclavian Artery Catheterization Technic” in Radiology….
On May 7, 1962, the Acute Leukemia Task Force held its first meeting. It focused the combined efforts…
On Mar. 27, 1962, the Sabin oral polio vaccine (OPV) type 3 MOPV was licensed in the U.S.,…
On Mar. 15, 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed a Consumer Bill of Rights in a message to…
On Feb. 4, 1962, St.ﾠ Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened it’s doors.This was the day that Danny Thomas…
in 1962, Iowa Methodist Medical Center established Iowa’s first hospital-based radiation oncology department and remains a leader in…
In 1962, Bernard Lown became the first to use direct electric current to restore the rhythm of the…
In 1962, the Milton A. Darling Memorial Clinical Cancer Research Center, a clinical facility, was established.
In 1962, Dr. Werner Kalow combined pharmacology and genetics into a subspecialty called pharmacogenetics, and wrote the first…
In 1962, The Texas Heart Institute was founded by world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. Today, the…