In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
On May 4, 1949, the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis (DTP) vaccine was licensed. A greater than…
May 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month was first declared. In 2006, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day was chosen…
On Mar. 2, 1949, Louis Olivier published “The Penetration of Dermatitis-Producing Schistosome Cercariae” in the American Journal of…
In 1949, The Priestley Medal was awarded to Arthur B. Lamb by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1949, Walter Hagemeyer Burkholder, a pioneer in bacterial taxonomy, described the bacteria, Pseudomonas cepacia, now known as…
In 1949, the FDA approved nitrogen mustard to kill cancer cells.
In 1949, the last reported case of smallpox in the U.S. occurred. Although it took another two decades…
In 1949, the U.S. blood system reached a benchmark of 1,500 hospital blood banks, 46 community blood centers,…
In 1949, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published guidance to industry for the first time. This guidance,…
In 1949, the first artificial heart pump was developed at Yale by William H. Sewell and William W….
In 1949, John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins grew poliovirus in culture, paving the way for polio…
In 1949, a team of Harvard researchers led by Dr. John F. Enders found that the poliovirus could…
In 1949, Ancel Keyes, M.D. founded the University of Minnesota’s Laboratory of Physiologic Hygiene for research on physiology,…
In 1949, Ethicon was formed from Johnson ï¾ &ï¾ Johnson’s heritage suture business.
In 1949, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) was founded in New York. The LLS mission is to…
In 1949, Dr. Jonas Salk, with grants from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Pitt team and…
In 1949, Canadaï¾’s first full-time cancer physicist, Dr. Harold Johns, led the world in development the cobalt bomb…
In 1949, The Medical College of Virginia Foundation (MCV) was incorporated with the mission to inspire and steward…
In 1949, to help stem the spread of tuberculosis, the city of Seattle created a locked ward for…
In 1949, the office of Malaria Control declared the U.S. was free of malaria as a significant public…
On Sept. 21, 1948, a 28-year-old woman at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic) in Rochester, MN received the…
On May 15, 1948, John Roderick Heller became the fourth and longest serving director of the National Cancer…
In March 1948, John Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins used human embryonic skin and muscle tissue, grown…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in Geneva. WHO is the directing and…
On Apr. 6, 1948, President Harry Truman appointed Leonard A. Scheele as U.S. Surgeon General.
In 1948, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Edward R. Weidlein by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In 1948, Warfarin was introduced as a pesticide against rats and mice. Warfarin (a.k.a. Coumadin) is an anticoagulant…
In 1948, George Hitchings and Hitchings and laboratory assistant Gertrude Elion synthesized 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP), an antimetabolite, to combat…
In 1948, The Arthritis Foundation, the leading health organization addressing the needs of some 46 million Americans living…