In 1998, the Mammography Quality Standards Reauthorization Act (MQSA) was passed by the U.S. Congress and continued the…
In 1998, the Pediatric Rule was implemented that required drug manufacturers to study the efficacy and safety of…
In 1998, Beth Israel Deaconess surgeon Dr. Roger Jenkins performed the first successful live donor liver transplantation (LADLT)…
In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that an estimated 47.2 million adults (24.1%),…
In 1998, Tamoxifen, created with the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line established by Karmanos, was revealed to reduce…
On Nov. 26, 1997, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved the Monoclonal antibody…
On Nov. 4, 1997, Vice President Al Gore and Senator Mark O. Hatfield attended groundbreaking ceremonies for the…
On Jul. 29, 1997, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released information that nuclear testing during the 1950s could…
In 1997, the Penn Medicine’s Cancer Center was renamed the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania…
On May 16, 1997, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) participated in the televised Presidential…
On Feb. 13, 1997, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation…
In 1997, the University of Iowa established the Center for Macular Degeneration. The Center was later renamed the…
In 1997, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University received its National Cance Institute ‘comprehensive’…
In 1997, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research broke ground in Kansas City, MO. The Institute was founded…
In 1997, Bristol-Myers Squibb opened a 433-acre research campus in Hopewell, New Jersey. Two important new medicines co-developed…
In 1997, anesthesiologist Joanne Conroy, M.D. became the first woman appointed as head of the University of South…
In 1997, The Fred Hutchinson Business Alliance announced that the E. Donnall Thomas Medal of Achievement would be…
In 1997, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBR) was established in Houston through a NASA Cooperative Agreement….
In 1997, IsoRay was founded in Richland as a spin-off from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to…
In 1997, cancer stem cells were first identified in acute myelogenous leukemia. They will later be identified in…
In 1997, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Chinese scientists found that occupational exposure to benzene is associated…
In 1998, Alfred Mann gave $112.5 million to establish the University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann Institute…
In 1997, the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA), the largest nonprofit [501(c)3] organization working to support people with fibromyalgia…
In 1997, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a group that became the National…
Dec. 5, 1996, marked the first time that all home buyers and tenants have the right to know…
On Nov. 15, 1996, for the first time, scientists pinpointed the location of a gene they believe is…
Oct. 20, 1996, the United Kingdom’s National Osteoporosis Society supported by the European Commission, announced the creation of…
On Oct. 1, 1996, the National Laboratory for the Study of Rural Telemedicine began work supported by the…
On Jan. 29, 1996, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol M. Browner took the last steps concluding a…
On Jan. 2, 1996, Stanford Medicine researchers announced they had discovered that the p53 protein, known to be…