On Jan. 23, 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Alert Network issued a…
In 2009, Drs. Judith James and Linda Thompson at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) helped develop an…
In 2000, Eli Lilly and Takeda Chemical launched Actos, an oral anti diabetes agent. In 2005, a PROactive…
On Dec. 10, 1970, Norman Borlaug, from Cresco, Iowa, became the first plant breeder to accept the Nobel…
In 1964, the Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP) was the The Rockefeller Foundationﾒs first intensive agricultural endeavor begun in…
In 1962, the birth of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico was an experiment…
On Sept. 21, 1960, FDA officials announced the last remaining major source of the discredited Hoxsey cancer treatment…
In 1957, the Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP) was the The Rockefeller Foundationﾒs first intensive agricultural endeavor begun in…
In 1946, Squibb International was incorporated and the company expanded into South America and Europe while building manufacturing…
In 1944, Norman Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation’s pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico, where he was…
In 1933, the New World Screwworm (NWS) was first documented as a significant problem in the Southeast following…
In 1930, Johnsonﾠ&ﾠJohnson established operations in Mexico and South Africa.
In 1917, Mather H. Neill discovered that scrotal reactions of guinea pigs with “Mexican” typhus (later known as…
In late 1845 and 1846, a summer blight ravaged Ireland’s potato crop. It is estimated that more than…