The antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), discovered by David T. Wong, was given FDA approval
In 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), discovered by David T. Wong, was given U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
In 1987, the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), discovered by David T. Wong, was given U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
In 1987, Drs. Patrick and Edith McGeer developed the groundbreaking concept that inflammation plays a role in the…
In 1987, construction was completed on the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland. The institute is…
In 1986, scientists independently identified the structure of a nerve cell receptor, now called CB1, which responded to…
On Mar. 4, 1985, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee M. Thomas announced final standards to cut…
On Jan. 1, 1984, a University of Iowa College of Medicine research team headed by Dr. Antonio Damasio…
In 1984, the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) was selected as one of the original…
On Oct. 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation making the month of November 1983 as National…
On Feb. 7, 1983, Rita M. Lavelle, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program to clean…
In 1982, George Streisinger at the University of Oregon (UO) cloned the first vertebrate — a zebrafish. Streisinger…
On Nov. 23, 1981, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration licensed Quadrivalent groups A, C, Y, and W-135…
In 1981, Roger W. Sperry of the California Institute of Technology was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology…
In 1981, Dr. Alexa Canady became the first African American woman in the U.S. to become a neurosurgeon,…
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…