U.S. FDA cleared Naeotom Alpha, worldﾒs first photon-counting computer tomograph
On Sept. 30 2021, Siemens Healthineers announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510 (k) clearance of the…
AI detected COVID-19 on chest X-rays faster and with more accuracy than radiologists
On Nov. 24, 2020, Northwestern University researchers announced they had developed a new artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform that…
Aspirin use best for those with high coronary calcium, low risk of bleeding
On Oct. 28, 2020, UT Southwestern scientists reported that an X-ray test commonly used to assess hardening of…
Ada Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping the structure of ribosomes using X-ray crystallography
In 2009, Ada Yonath received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping the structure of ribosomes using X-ray…
The CDC assisted in the study of health effects related to the Mount St Helens volcanic eruption
On May 30, 1980, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report of health…
Dr. Charles T. Dotter performed the world’s first percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
On Jan. 16, 1964, Dr. Charles T. Dotter at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), considered the father…
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations of the structures of important biochemical substances
In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of…
The double helical structure of DNA was revealed
On Feb. 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced the discovery of the double helical structure of…
Scientists discovered how to purify and preserve penicillin
In 1940, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and others in England discover how to purify and preserve penicillin. The…
The First medical staff of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital was named
In 1925, after conferring with the Pulaski County Medical Society, Arkansas Childrenﾒs Hospitalﾒs first all-volunteer medical staff was…
Marie Skłodowska-Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium, and the isolation of radium.
In 1911, Marie Curie, nee Sklodowska was awarded the The Nobel Prize in Chemistry “in recognition of her…
McGill’s Ernest Rutherford awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the concept of the atomic half-life and the element radon
In 1908, McGill professor Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration…
pierre and marie Curie, vanity fair
Caricature of Pierre and Marie Curie. Caption read “Radium.” Published in Vanity Fair, Dec. 22, 1904.
Radium was found effective in the treatment of tumors
In 1903, radium was found effective in the treatment of tumors which Marie and Pierre Curie had isolated,…
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his work in discovering the X-ray
In 1901, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his…
An Austrian newspaper reported a type of radiation now known as X-rays
On Jan. 5, 1896, an Austrian newspaper (Wiener Presse) reported that German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen had discovered a…
The first X-ray was produced at Yale
On Feb. 5, 1886, Dr. Arthur Wright who produced the first X-ray at Yale the previous year, published…