Court of Appeals ruled commercial success does not constitute substantial evidence of drug safety and efficacy
On Feb. 27, 1970, in Upjohn v. Finch the Court of Appeals upheld enforcement of the 1962 drug…
On Feb. 27, 1970, in Upjohn v. Finch the Court of Appeals upheld enforcement of the 1962 drug…
In 1970, Senator Norris Cotton secured a $3 million federal grant to build rural New England’s first regional…
On Oct. 3, 1969, a proposal to establish “Earth Day” was submitted by John McConnell to Peter Tamaris…
In 1968, Ted Stevens, Alaska’s senior Senator, was elected to the U.S. Congress. His tenure made him the…
In 1968, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formed the Drug Efficacy Study Implementation (DESI) to implement recommendations…
In 1967 the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA or Act), enacted by the U.S. Congress directs the…
On Nov. 3, 1966, the Child Protection Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The bill enlarged the…
On Oct. 15, 1966, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Sea Grant College Program Act. Today, the National…
On Aug. 24, 1966, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that became known as the Animal Welfare Act (P.L….
In 1966, the Drug Efficacy Study of the National Research Council’s Division of Medical Sciences, which was tasked…
In 1966, Mark Hatfield served in the State Legislature from 1951-1957; was secretary of state from 1957-1959. He…
On Feb. 9, 1965, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – NASA Technology of Spacecraft…
On Jul. 10, 1963, the U.S. FDA approved vincristine, a sister drug to vinblastine. The drug was established…
In 1963, the U.S. Congress established the Immunization Grant Program; polio incidence plummeted to only 396 reported cases…
On Oct. 10, 1962, the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments were signed into law by President Kennedy. The Legislation was…
On Mar. 15, 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed a Consumer Bill of Rights in a message to…
On Oct. 6, 1961, the National Congress on Medical Quackery convened in Washington, D.C. sponsored jointly by the…
In September 1961, U. S. Congress authorized the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct a study of…
On Aug. 23, 1961, The Committee on the National Medal of Science was established by President John F….
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy in his historic message to a joint session of the…
In 1961, Congress established National Poison Prevention Week to raise awareness, reduce unintentional poisonings, and promote poison prevention….
In Jun. 1960, the U.S. Congress passed an appropriations bill that included funding for a Federal Insect Laboratory…
On Aug. 25, 1959, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th U.S. Congress as a…
On Sept. 6, 1958, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Additives Amendments were passed, requiring that…
On Jul. 29, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (NASA), leading to the…
On Mar. 4, 1956, Sandia opened second laboratory and transferred personnel from Albuquerque to Livermore, California and began…
On Apr. 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh was…
On Apr. 1, 1955, the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center was established in the institute…
In 1955, Oveta Culp Hobby, the first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) appointed a committee of…
In 1955, the Polio Vaccination Assistance Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress, the first federal involvement in…