In 1949, the U.S. blood system reached a benchmark of 1,500 hospital blood banks, 46 community blood centers,…
In 1949, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published guidance to industry for the first time. This guidance,…
In 1949, the first artificial heart pump was developed at Yale by William H. Sewell and William W….
In 1949, at Harvard, John F. Enders, Ph.D., a Yale College graduate, Frederick C. Robbins, M.D., and Thomas…
In 1949, Ancel Keyes, M.D. founded the University of Minnesota’s Laboratory of Physiologic Hygiene for research on physiology,…
In 1949, Ethicon was formed from Johnson ﾠ&ﾠ Johnson’s heritage suture business.
In 1949, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) was founded in New York. The LLS mission is to…
In 1949, Dr. Jonas Salk, with grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Pitt team and…
In 1949, Canadaﾒs first full-time cancer physicist, Dr. Harold Johns, led the world in development the cobalt bomb…
In 1949, The Medical College of Virginia Foundation (MCV) was incorporated with the mission to inspire and steward…
In 1949, to help stem the spread of tuberculosis, the city of Seattle created a locked ward for…
In 1949, the office of Malaria Control declared the U.S. was free of malaria as a significant public…
On Sept. 21, 1948, a 28-year-old woman at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN received the…
On May 15, 1948, John Roderick Heller became the fourth and longest serving director of the National Cancer…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded and is today the United Nations agency…
On Apr. 6, 1948, President Harry Truman appointed Leonard A. Scheele as U.S. Surgeon General.
In 1948, The Arthritis Foundation, the leading health organization addressing the needs of some 46 million Americans living…
In 1948, the Red Cross began the first nationwide blood program for civilians, at a collection center in…
In 1948, the National Cancer Institute’s grants program to medical, dental, and osteopathic schools was initiated for improvement…
In 1948, Chester Emmons from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases first pointed out reservoirs of…
In 1948, the Miller Amendment affirmed that the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act applied to goods regulated…
In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) Influenza Centre was established at the National Institute for Medical Research…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
In 1948, pharmacologist Dr. Raymond P. Ahlquist of the Medical College of Georgia published research that laid the…
In 1948, the first series of successful operations was performed at Peter Bent Brigham for repair of stenotic…
In 1948, the Detroit Cancer Center was established from the union of the Detroit Institute for Cancer Research…
In 1948, the National Institute of Health was reorganized into the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Rocky…
In 1948, Dr. Isabel M. Morgan led a team that successfully inoculated monkeys with a killed-virurs vaccine. From…
In 1948, Elsie Taber joined the faculty of the Anatomy Department of the Medical College of South Carolina….
In 1948, the National Research Council established a library on the University of Saskatchewan campus to use chemistry…