On Apr. 10, 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association was established. In 1979, Jerome H. Stone and representatives from several…
In 1980, autism appeared for the first time as a diagnosis in the third edition of the DSM…
On Dec. 21, 1979, Stanford Medicine pharmacologist Avram Goldstein announced the discovery of dynorphin – a chemical in…
In 1979, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging (IOA) was created to improve the health of the…
In 1978, University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) scientist Choh Hao Li discovers Beta-endorphin, a substance produced in the…
In 1967, chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first observed in a captive deer in Colorado where it was…
On Mar. 7, 1977, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol-Myers’ BICNU (carmustine), for the treatment of…
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Environmental Services Division revealed blood lead levels…
In 1976, Bristol-Myers introduced CEENU (lomustine), a chemotherapy product for brain cancer and Hodgkins lymphoma. Lomustine is an…
On Nov. 28, 1973, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Russell E. Train announced the final regulations to…
In 1973, The National surveillance of Reye syndrome began in 1973 when the Center for Disease Control and…
In 1971, John Vane discovered how aspirin worked, a finding that a daily low dose of aspirin prevents…
In 1967, Clara Claiborne Park, an American college English teacher, published one of the first parent memoirs about…
In 1965, the National Society for Autistic Children (later renamed the Autism Society of America) was founded by…
In 1964, Bernard Rimland, a research psychologist and father of a son with Rimland, published Infantile Autism, a…
In 1963, Australian pathologist R.D.K. Reye first described this syndrome. National surveillance led to strict warnings regarding aspirin…
In 1959, Johnson ﾠ&ﾠ Johnson acquired McNeil Laboratories giving the Company a significant presence in the growing field…
On Jan. 26, 1953, World Leprosy Day was established by Raoul Follereau a French writer and journalist. This…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
On Apr. 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann tested synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on himself. LSD-25, as originally known…
In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
On Sept. 6, 1940, Karl Habel produced an improved, killed rabies vaccine that eliminated foreign brain tissue that…
On Jul. 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous speech bidding farewell to the ballpark and…
On Nov. 16, 1938, Albert Hofmann at Sandoz synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). LSD-25, as originally known when…
In 1936, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky at the Rockefeller Institute successfully grew poliovirus in a culture of…
In 1923, William Mansfield Clark from the U.S. Department of Agriculture alerted the public to the dangers of…
In 1916, Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS), also known as Landry-Guillain-Barr-Strohl syndrome, was described. Its incidence in North America and…
On Aug. 14, 1915, Hans Lundbeck founded a company in Copenhagen, Denmark, which dealt in everything from machinery…
In 1911, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘autism,’ borrowing from the Eugen Bleuler Greek word ‘autos’…
On Jul. 15, 1910, the term Alzheimer’s disease was first used by German psychiatrist Dr. Emil Kraepelin to…