In 1991, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), was…
In 1991, the Division of Oral Health (DOH) was established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
In 1991, The National Cancer Institute (NCI) began its Five-a-Day program, in partnership with the nonprofit group Produce…
In 1991, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published regulations to Accelerate the Review of Drugs for life-threatening diseases….
In 1991, the UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center opened with support by Donald and Darlene Shiley and…
In 1991, the world’s first superconducting cyclotron built to treat cancer was installed at the Gershenson Radiation Oncology…
On Oct. 1, 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project (HGP), a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department…
On Sept. 14, 1990, W. French Anderson and his colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) performed…
On Aug. 18, 1990, the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act was signed into law by President…
In 1990, Geneticist Mary-Claire King and her colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) discovered BRCA1,…
In 1990, the California Supreme Court rules in the case involving Seattle’s John Moore that a patient does…
In 1990, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported viral causes of gastroenteritis, helping identify…
In 1990, the Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU) in Winston-Salem received National Cancer Institute (NCI) comprehensive…
On Nov. 27, 1989, a surgical team at the University of Chicago Medical Center performed a live donor…
On May 22, 1989, Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg and his team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) performed…
On Apr. 17, 1989, World Hemophilia Day was started and the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) chose April…
On Jan. 19, 1989, a team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S. produced the…
In 1989, Karmanos Cancer Institute researcher Dr. Soule developed MCF-10, an immortal line of normal human breast cells….
In 1989, CFTR, the gene causing cystic fibrosis was discovered by researcher Lap-Chee Tsui at Toronto’s Hospital for…
In 1989, the State Office of Rural Health became part of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to…
In 1989, the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) Center for Ethics in Health Care was created to bring…
In 1989, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) initiated mechanism of supplementing research grants to encourage recruitment of minority…
In 1988, Stanford Medicine researchers Irving Weissman and Mike McCune created an animal model that can be used…
On Aug. 15, 1988, a program advisory committee on the human genome was established to advise the National…
On Jun. 25, 1988, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) proposed to ban mailings of microbe samples capable of…
On Jun. 17, 1988, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the recipients…
On Mar. 31, 1988, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Space Grant College and Fellowship program and authorized…
In 1988, James C. Wang discovered DNA topoisomerases, which led to greater understanding of enzymes’ role in biological…
On Jun. 26, 1987, it was announced that the National Center for Health Statistics ﾠ(NCHS) had become an…
In 1987, Eli Lilly and Company introduced Humulin insulin identical to that produced by the human body. Humulin…