On Nov. 16, 2021, Illumina and Genetic Alliance announced the creation of the iHope Genetic Health program aimed…
On Nov. 14, 2021, the Calgary city council voted to reinstate fluoridation in Calgary’s waters. The count was…
On Nov. 8, 2021, Cocrystal Pharma announced that its SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors showed potent in vitro pan-viral…
On Oct. 29, 2021, Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) board of directors approved a project to expand…
On Oct. 26, 2021, Anixa Biosciences announced that, in conjunction with its partner, Cleveland Clinic, it had commenced…
On Oct. 20, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a program to study a rare type…
On Oct. 19, 2021, the first investigational transplant of a genetically engineered, nonhuman kidney to a human body…
On Oct. 15, 2021, Roche announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Tecentriq (atezolizumab)…
On Oct. 12, 2021, National Resilience announced a strategic collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to implement…
The Torah offered instructions for isolating lepers, the first published guidance for health confinement occurred around 400-600 BCE.
In 583 BCE, the Council of Lyons in Lyon, France restricted lepers from freely associating with healthy persons.
Around 500 BCE, Hippocrates, a pioneering physician in the history of Medicine, and considered as the principal author…
On Sept. 22, 2021, Gilead Sciences announced positive results from a Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to…
On Sept. 6, 2021, a genomic analysis of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking has…
On Sept. 1, 2021, Novartis announced a commercial agreement with the NHS in England as part of a…
On Aug. 30, 2021, the United Nations announced the global phase-out of leaded fuel, a milestone for multilateralism,…
On Aug. 27, 2021, researchers at University of British Columbia’s (UBC) faculty of medicine and BC Cancer Research…
On Aug. 27, 2021, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space station astronauts successfully demonstrated DNA repair in…
On Aug. 14, 2021, the Ministry of Health of Cote d’Ivoire confirmed the country’s first case of Ebola…
On Aug. 6, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Sanofi’s Nexviazyme® (avalglucosidase alfa-ngpt) for the…
On Jul. 29, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it had launched a new online research…
On Jul. 8, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported that overall cancer death rates continue to…
On Jul. 8, 2021, access to the world’s largest browsable resource linking rare protein-coding genetic variants to human…
On Jun. 23, 2021, Biogen and Eisai announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted…
On Jun. 16, 2021, the University of Oxford announced the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial demonstrated…
On Jun. 16, 2021, Moderna announced that the U.S. government had purchased an additional 200 million doses of…
On Jun. 16, 2021, Pfizer and The Academic Research Organization (ARO) from the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein announced…
On Jun. 7, 2021, Biogen and Eisai announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted…
On Jun. 1, 2021, in a study of 11 medical-mystery patients, an international team of researchers led by…
On Jun. 1, 2021, Sanofi announced that Vaxelis (Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Poliovirus, Haemophilus…