On Jan. 10, 2025, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) reported that when it comes to…
On Oct. 28, 2024, the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, together with descendants of Henrietta Lacks,…
On Oct. 2, 2024, a study from the GBD Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators reported that by accelerating the decline…
On Aug. 28, 2024, the University of Würzburg announced research using newly generated “optogenetic” tobacco plants to investigated…
On Jul. 2, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a comprehensive set of tobacco cessation interventions, including…
On Jun. 19, 2024, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released a comprehensive new report that…
On Apr. 13, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the legislation clarifying the agency can…
On Sept. 23, 2020, the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) announced that a harmless airborne fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum…
On Jun. 24, 2020, a team of scientists at Texas A&M University announced it is working with iBio…
On Jun. 10, 2020, the World Trade Organizationﾒs (WTO) Appellate Body reported on the dispute brought by Honduras…
On Nov. 9, 2918, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an estimated 47.4 million…
On Aug. 24, 2018, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced it passed a $2…
On Jun. 29, 2015, the Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority (LSDF) was defunded by the Washington State Legislature,…
On Jun. 27, 2006, the U.S. Surgeon General released a report on the harmful health consequences of involuntary…
In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted Dow AgroSciences the first regulatory approval for a plant-made…
On Jul. 13, 2005, The Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority (LSDF) was established and a total of $350…
In 2004, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) collaborated with the Department of Health and Human Services to establish…
On Feb. 11, 2002, three leading national health organizations announced they had committed $15 million to establish the…
On Mar. 21, 2000, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 along ideological lines, that the U.S. Food…
In 2000, the Arkansas Biosciences Institute was founded during a statewide planning process for use of the state’s…
In 1996, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found evidence of tobacco smoke exposure in…
In 1996, the first genetically engineered crop was commercialized. The first genetically modified plant was produced a short…
On Aug. 22, 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the commercial production and distribution of the Bt…
In 1995, the FDA declared cigarettes to be “drug delivery devices.” Restrictions were proposed on marketing and sales…
On Feb. 25, 1994, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it could consider regulating regulating tobacco…
In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
In 1986, the Office on Smoking and Health became part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
On May 23, 1984, U.S. Surgeon General reported that there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to…
In 1976, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became the home for the National Clearinghouse…
On Mar. 2, 1961, President Kennedy swore in Luther Leonidas Terry as U.S. Surgeon General. The landmark Surgeon…