In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
From 1951 to 1976, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) treated some of the state’s sickest children, most…
In 1950, Drs. Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench at the Mayo Clinic, along with Tadeus Reichstein,…
In 1949, to help stem the spread of tuberculosis, the city of Seattle created a locked ward for…
On Sept. 21, 1948, a 28-year-old woman at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN received the…
In 1947, The first attempt at coordinating cancer at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) was a…
On Aug. 8, 1945, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (SKI) was established. A gift of $4 million…
In 1942, the first phage electron micrographs (EM) were published in 1940 in Germany and proved the particulate…
In January 1941, Ida A. Bengtson and Norman Topping published “Complement-Fixation in Rickettsial Diseases” in the American Journal…
In 1941, Danish microbiologist A. Jost coined the term genetic engineering in a lecture on sexual reproduction in…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
On Jul. 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous speech bidding farewell to the ballpark and…
In 1939, Louis Schwartz and H. R. Foerster described industrial dermatitis and melanosis due to photosensitization.
On Aug. 5, 1937, Senate Bill 2067 (Public Law 244) established the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and made…
In 1937, Margaret Pittman, Sara E. Branham, and E. M. Sockrider showed the type specificity of meningococcus by…
In May 1935, Kenneth Lynch and William Atmar Smith from the Medical College of South Carolina published an…
In 1933, Louis Schwartz, F.C. Makepeace, and H. Trendley Dean published findings showing the hazardous effects of radium…
In 1932, Tompkins-McCaw Library at the Medical College of Virginia opened. Called the “college library” when the building…
In 1931, the electron microscope was invented by Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska at the Berlin Technische Hochschule….
In 1931, H. Trendley Dean and Elias Elvove started work on the mystery of “mottled enamel” — later…
In 1931, Rolla E. Dyer, Lucius F. Badger, and Adolph S. Rumreich demonstrated that Rocky Mountain spotted fever…
In 1930, the Ransdell Act changed the name of the Hygienic Laboratory to National Institute (singular) of Health…
In 1930, the name of the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration was shortened to Food and Drug Administration…
In 1930, the Hygienic Laboratory changed its name to the National Institute (singular) of Health and authorized the…
In 1929, The Cook County Hospital added a children’s hospital, men’s hospital, new morgue, and a receiving/admitting building….
On Oct. 12, 1928, the first iron lung was used at Boston Children’s Hospital by Harvard Medical School…
In 1928, the sword symbol of the Americal Cancer Society (ASCC) came from a 1928 nationwide poster contest…
In 1928, Dr. Eaton MacKay was invited from Stanford University to become the first director of research at…
In 1928, The University of Oregon Medical School takes over operation of Doernbecher Hospital. Frank Doernbecher was a…
On Feb. 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)…