The CDC became the home for the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became the home for the National Clearinghouse…
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The Wistar Institute was designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center
In 1972, The Wistar Institute was designated the first National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center in basic research…
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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…
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First evidence linking smoking and lung cancer was published at Washington University in St Louis
On May 27, 1950, Washington University physician Evarts A. Graham, MD, and medical student Ernst Wynder published a…
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NIH scientists first identified type II cell of pulmonary alveolus as the cell of origin of the common alveologenic tumours of the lungs
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
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Medical College of South Carolina researchers published article that linked brown lung disease (asbestosis) with cancer
In May 1935, Kenneth Lynch and William Atmar Smith from the Medical College of South Carolina published an…
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World’s first succesful surgical lung removal was performed at Washington University – St Louis
On Apr. 4, 1933, Evarts A. Graham, MD at Washington University – St. Louis performed the world’s first…
