On Jul. 29, 1998, the Stamp Out Breast Cancer stamp was first issued. The driving force behind the…
On Jul. 29, 1998, the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed (Certiva by North American…
On Jul. 15, 1998, Aptein, founded by Glenn Kawasaki in Seattle, was acquired by Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT)…
In 1998, Rainbow papaya seed, a transgenic virus-resistant variety, were released to farmers, allowing farmers to cultivate this…
On Jun. 16, 1998, University of Washington Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s announced the…
On April 30, 1998, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Genentech’s drug Xeloda (capecitabine) for the…
In 1998, the Priestley Medal was awarded to F. Albert Cotton by the American Chemical Society “to recognize…
In March 1998, the Stop TB Initiative was established following a meeting of the First Ad hoc Committee…
On Feb. 14, 1998, National Donor Day was started by the Saturn Corporation and its United Auto Workers…
On Feb. 10, 1998, the Cook County Board of Commissioners took the final steps in the approval process,…
On Jan. 13, 1998, Seattle Genetics (Seagen) was founded in Bothell as a biotechnology company focused on developing…
In 1998, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Dale proclaimed November “National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month” in Chicago. The National Sarcoidosis…
In 1998, the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center was founded at University of Iowa’s College of Medicine. Today, the…
In 1998, The University of Minnesota Cancer Center, which was founded in 1991, was renamed the Masonic Cancer…
In 1998, some research caused concern that hepatitis B vaccination might be linked with multiple sclerosis (MS), a…
In 1998, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began surveillance of swine for influenza virus in the U.S….
In 1998, the The Prostate Centre at VGH, now known as the Vancouver Prostate Centre, was founded. The…
In 1998, National Cancer Institute (NCI)Â awarded the City of Hope Cancer Center NCI-comprehensive cancer center designation. City…
In 1998, The Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $5 million gift from local philanthropist Henrietta Lee which…
In 1998, University of Calgary’s Dr. Patrick Lee revealed that reovirus injected in mice shrank tumours from brain…
In 1998, Cancer incidence rates showed first sustained decline since the National Cancer Institute (NCI) began keeping records…
In 1998, the Mammography Quality Standards Reauthorization Act (MQSA) was passed by the U.S. Congress and continued the…
In 1998, the first phase to consolidate U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratories nationwide from 19 facilities…
In 1998, the Pediatric Rule was implemented that required drug manufacturers to study the efficacy and safety of…
O Oct. 13, 1998, Walter Kohn of the University of California at Santa Barbara was awarded the 1998…
On May 5, 1998, Baxter announced it had completed its acquision of Bulder, Colorado-based of Somatogen in a…
In 1998, Yale Cancer Center researchers discovered the gene, Survivin, which is linked to the detection of some…
In 1998, Beth Israel Deaconess surgeon Dr. Roger Jenkins performed the first successful live donor liver transplantation (LADLT)…
In 1998, Harvard Medical School-based scientists established the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology (ICCB), to facilitate the…
In 1998, Tamoxifen, created with the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line established by Karmanos, was revealed to reduce…