Toxoplasma gondii in cats’ fecal stages identified as coccidian oocysts
On Feb. 6, 1970, a report identified a coccidian parasite of cats with all non-feline warm blooded animals…
On Feb. 6, 1970, a report identified a coccidian parasite of cats with all non-feline warm blooded animals…
On Jan. 12, 1970, Seattle begans fluoridation of the water supply. The controversial action came more than a…
In 1970, the first human case of mpox was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…
in 1970, Stanford Research Institute became independent of Stanford University. Stanford Research Institute, now known as the SRI…
On Jan. 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law and launched…
In 1970, Cisplatin, a platinum-containing anticancer compound with unique biologic effects, entered clinical trials. On Dec. 19, 1978,…
In 1970, the term ‘developmental disability’ is introduced in the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities construction amendments to…
In 1970, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was founded under the National Academy of Science charter. as an…
In 1970, immunologist Frank Dixon was appointed chair of the biomedical research operations at the Scripps Clinic and…
In 1970, Howard Temin and David Baltimore discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase. Reverse transcriptase and bacterial restriction enzymes…
In 1970, an all-volunteer blood donor system began to be implemented by U.S. blood banks.
In 1970, the FDA required the first patient package insert: oral contraceptives must contain information for the patient…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…
In 1970, the first oncogene termed src was discovered in a chicken retrovirus. Dr. G. Steve Martin at…
In 1970, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy were introduced to locate and remove precancerous growths in the colon. Clinical…
In 1970, influenza H3N2 viruses were first identified in swine during an influenza surveillance study in Taiwan. This…
In 1970, The Cancer Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was established. Research at the Center…
In 1970, in an effort to help new mothers rest and become acquainted with handling their infants, Stanford…
In 1970, the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) was renamed the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The scope…
In 1970, the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system was established by the CDC for monitoring infections acquired in…
In 1970, the Nutrition Program was transferred to the CDC to asses severe nutrition in the U.S. and…
In 1970, Dana-Farber researchers cloned the gene ras and demonstrated that, when mutated, this first known human oncogene…
In 1970, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers pioneered the positron emission tomography (PET) scan, enabling noninvasive looks at functional…
In 1970, Senator Norris Cotton secured a $3 million federal grant to build rural New England’s first regional…
In 1970, University of Oklahoma’s first Health Sciences building was constructed in Oklahoma City. Today, this public university…
In 1970, Dr. Calvin Stiller conducted one of the first clinical trials studying the effectiveness of the immunosuppressive…
In 1970, the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina was established in 1970…
In 1974, Bristol-Myers terminated it’s Palomar motion picture business. . In 1970, Bristol-Myers formed Palomar Pictures, which produced…
On Dec. 18, 1969, President Nixon appointed Jesse Leonard Steinfeld as U.S. Surgeon General.
On Dec. 13, 1969, Charles Edwards, M.D., becomes FDA commissioner.