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1987 |
Cyberonics Corp. was founded to design, develop and bring to market medical devices to treat epilepsy. The company developed an implantable device to stimulate the vagus nerve to reduce the frequency and extent of epileptic seizures. Links: USA, Technology, Medical 
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1987 |
Dr. Lameh Fananapazir was hired by the National Institutes of Health [NIH] and expanded the agency’s research in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [HCM], an inherited condition that thickens the heart and can cause sudden death. In 1993 he received approval to begin putting pacemakers into children and claimed results that indicated a reversal of the disease. His work has become very controversial. Links: USA, Medical, Heart
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1987 |
The "Breathe Right" strip was invented by an allergy sufferer as a device to enhance air flow in the nose. Links: USA, Medical
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1987 |
Dr. Alastair Carruthers of Vancouver, BC, injected botulinum toxin into the forehead of his secretary Cathy Bickerton Swann to reduce her frown lines. The FDA approved Botox for a variety of conditions in 1989. Links: Canada, USA, Medical, FDA
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1987 |
In Haiti Paul Farmer, American doctor and anthropologist, helped create a community-based health care system called Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health). Partners In Health (PIH) was founded by Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack to support activities in Cange. In 2003 Tracy Kidder authored “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” the story of Dr. Farmer. In 2004 Farmer authored “Pathologies of Power.” Links: Haiti, USA, Medical
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1987 |
Randy Shilts authored "The Band Played On," in which he chronicled the early days of AIDS. Links: USA, Microbiology, SF, Medical, AIDS
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1987 |
Russia recorded its first case of AIDS. By 1997 the number rose to 7,000. By 2008 the number reached 430,000. Links: Russia, Medical, AIDS
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1988 Jan 21 |
Retin-A got a boost when a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association said the anti-acne drug could also reduce wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun. Links: USA, Medical, Pharma, Sun
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1988 Jan 28 |
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the nation's restrictive abortion law. Links: Canada, Medical
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1988 May 26 |
The New England Journal of Medicine reported that the 1st NYC cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever struck 4 people in the Bronx between May and July of 1987. Links: NYC, Medical
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1988 Oct 5 |
Brazil accepted a constitution that obliged the government to make transfers to the 26 states and protect the jobs of public workers. This created a difficult environment for the control of spending. The new constitution also annulled the right of husbands to prohibit their wives from accepting employment. The new constitution also recognized Indian rights to reclaim their original lands and to preserve their way of life. Almost 600 reserves were established, encompassing 12.5% of Brazil’s territory, but many only existed on paper. The constitution also declared health care to be the right of the citizen and its provision to be the duty of the state. It also said Brazil will not develop, deploy or make use of nuclear weapons. Links: Brazil, Medical, Nuclear
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1988 Oct 26 |
A French pharmaceutical company, Roussel Uclaf, announced it would halt worldwide distribution of RU-486, a pill to induce abortions, because of "an outcry of opinion at home and abroad." The French government ordered the company to reverse itself two days later. Links: France, Medical, Pharma
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1988 Oct 28 |
A French pharmaceutical company that manufactured the abortion pill RU-486 announced it would resume distribution on command of the French government. Links: France, Medical, Pharma
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1988 Oct |
Sir James W. Black of Britain won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research that led to beta-blocker drugs for heart disease and drugs for peptic ulcers. Gertrude Elion (d.1999) and George H. Hitchings (d.1998 at 92) of the US were awarded for research leading to drugs for AIDS, herpes, leukemia and malaria. Elion and Hitchings were later considered as the founders of the field of chemotherapeutics. They were among the first to design drugs based on a biochemical understanding of the disease process. Links: Britain, USA, Nobel Prize, Medical
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1988 |
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) named ”chronic fatigue syndrome” (CFS), to describe ongoing symptoms of overwhelming fatigue. Links: USA, Medical
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1988 |
Michael Free of PATH, a nonprofit creator of medical technologies for developing countries, created a new syringe and needle that became disabled after a single injection. The autodestruct syringe was licensed exclusively to Becton Dickinson, which agreed to supply UNICEF and health ministries of developing nations and to pay a $50,000 patent maintenance fee. Links: USA, Technology, Medical, Patent
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1988 |
Dr. Eliane Gluckman became the first person to perform a cord blood transplant for a case of Franconi’s anemia. Links: USA, Medical
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1988 1994 |
In Liverpool, England, Dr. Dick van Velzen, a Dutch pathologist, cut thousands of parts from children who died during this period for research without the knowledge of their parents. Links: Britain, Medical, Kids
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1988 |
Iran began paying unrelated living donors for their kidneys. After 11 years it had eliminated its kidney transplant waiting list. Links: Iran, Medical, Donation
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1989 Apr 9 |
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Washington, D.C, demanding continued access to safe and legal abortion. Links: USA, Medical, DC
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1989 Jul 3 |
By a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court upheld abortion restrictions in the state of Missouri. The court ruled that states do not have to provide funds for abortions. Links: USA, Medical, Supreme Court
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1989 Oct 11 |
The US House narrowly approved an amendment to an appropriations bill that would restore Medicaid for abortions in cases of rape or incest. President Bush later vetoed the bill, and the veto was upheld. Links: USA, Medical, BushHW
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1989 Nov 18 |
Pennsylvania became the 1st state to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Medical, Supreme Court
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1989 |
J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus of the UC San Francisco won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their 1976 discovery of a family of genes, oncogenes in chickens, that helped scientists understand how cancer develops. In 1998 Robert A. Weinberg published "One Renegade Cell," a primer on the discovery of oncogenes. Links: USA, Nobel Prize, Medical, Cancer
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1989 |
Scientists used "positional cloning" to identify the gene that causes cystic fibrosis. Links: Medical, DNA, BioTech
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1989 |
The Hepatitis C virus was first isolated. It causes an infection of the liver that is usually lifelong and incurable. Scientists in 1999 found evidence of the virus in frozen blood samples from 1948. Links: Microbiology, Medical
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1989 |
The P53 gene was found to act as a tumor suppressor gene. Links: Medical, DNA, Cancer
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1989 |
Dr. Ray White led a team that found the NF-1 gene. A mutation of the gene was found to be responsible for neurofibromatosis. Links: Medical, DNA
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1989 1993 |
In Libya an outbreak of Old World Screwworm was eradicated by a coordinated int’l. effort. Links: Libya, Medical
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1989 1995 |
The US Congress established a program to ease the nursing shortage and allowed foreign nurses to work at hospitals under one-year visas where US workers were not available. Links: USA, Labor, Medical
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1989 |
Brazil’s United Health system (SUS) was created from the merger of two state systems. Links: Brazil, Medical
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1990 Mar 9 |
Dr. Antonia Novello (b.1944) was sworn in as the US surgeon general, becoming the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the job. Dr. Novello became Commissioner of Health for the State of New York in 1999. Links: USA, Medical
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1990 Mar 30 |
Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus vetoed a highly restrictive state abortion measure, saying the bill gave a woman and her family no flexibility in cases of rape and incest. Links: USA, Medical, Idaho
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1990 Apr 28 |
Anti-abortion demonstrators marched in Washington D.C.; authorities put the number of protesters at 200,000, but organizers claimed a turnout of about 700,000. Links: USA, Medical, DC
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1990 Jul 27 |
Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer vetoed a tough abortion bill passed by his state’s legislature. Links: USA, Louisiana, Medical
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1990 Oct 8 |
American doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas were named recipients of the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease. Links: USA, Nobel Prize, Medical
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1990 Nov 11 |
Stormie Jones, the world’s first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Medical, Heart
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1990 Dec 10 |
The Food and Drug Administration approved Norplant, a long-acting contraceptive implant. Links: USA, Medical, FDA
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1990 Dec 14 |
A Right to Die case permitted Nancy Cruzan of Missouri to have her feeding tube removed. She died 12 days later. Links: USA, Medical
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1990 |
In Washington in 1990, the Rev. George A. Stallings Jr. and his breakaway African-American Catholic Congregation, which encouraged the ordination of women and the use of birth control and abortion, were excommunicated for breaking ties with the Vatican. Links: USA, Vatican, Medical, DC
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1990 |
Survivors International was founded in Albany, California. It was dedicated to providing medical and psychological treatment to survivors of torture. Links: USA, California, Medical
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1990 |
At the Mayo Clinic a lung transplant program was begun. Links: USA, Medical
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1990 |
GHB, gamma hydroxy butyrate, began to be reported as a cause of illnesses. The paint thinner gamma butyl lactone was being mixed with water and alcohol that when ingested metabolized to GHB, later called "liquid ecstasy" or "blue nitro." Links: USA, Medical, Drugs
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1990 |
In San Francisco the Mount Zion Medical Center merged with UCSF. Links: USA, SF, Medical
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1990 |
The KE family were brought to the attention of the scientific community about this time. Over three generations of this family, about half the family members suffer from a number of problems, the most obvious of which is severe difficulty in speaking. A mutation of the FOXP2 brain gene was later related to language loss. Links: Medical, Biology, Brain, Language
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1991 Feb 22 |
US soldiers were issued the drug pyridostigmine bromide (PB) to counter the effects of the nerve agents tabun and soman. The drug was prescribed at 3 pills per day, but produced a physical a rush and was abused by many service people. It was later suspected as a cause of the symptoms of Gulf War syndrome. The drug was not fully approved by the FDA and military personnel were not informed of its effects. In 1999 a 2-year Rand analysis concluded that the drug pyridostigmine bromide could not be excluded as a contributor to Gulf War syndrome. The drug was given to as many as 300,000 US troops during the Persian gulf war. Links: Iraq, USA, Medical, FDA
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1991 Apr 28 |
Anti-abortion demonstrators marched in Washington DC; authorities put the number of protesters at 200,000, but organizers claimed a turnout of about 700,000. Links: USA, Medical, DC
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1991 May 23 |
In a five-to-four vote, the US Supreme Court upheld regulations barring federally subsidized family planning clinics from discussing abortion with pregnant women, or from telling women where they could get abortions. Links: USA, Medical, Supreme Court
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1991 May 31 |
US Federal health officials announced a new Medicare fee schedule. Links: USA, Medical
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1991 Jun 18 |
The Louisiana Legislature enacted a strict anti-abortion law, overriding a veto by Governor Buddy Roemer. Links: USA, Louisiana, Medical
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1991 Jun 27 |
Cor Therapeutics went public and raised $15 million. In 1998 it received partial FDA clearance for Integrillin, an anti-clotting drug. Links: USA, Medical, Pharma
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1991 Aug 25 |
Thousands of abortion foes rallied at a stadium in Wichita, Kan., where six weeks of anti-abortion protests led by Operation Rescue resulted in more than 2,600 arrests. Links: USA, Kansas, Medical
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1991 Nov 26 |
Condoms were handed out to thousands of NYC High School students. Links: USA, NYC, Medical
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1991 |
In Alberta a gas leak forced Wiebo Ludwig to evacuate his 320-acre Trickle Creek "community." Ludwig blamed the Alberta oil and gas industry for the death of 60 of his livestock and a succession of human health problems. The gas wells produced sour gas, a gas laced with the neurotoxin hydrogen sulfide. Links: Canada, Oil, Medical, Gas
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1991 |
Genzyme Corp. introduced a targeted enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease, a disorder that swells internal organs and weakens bones due to lack of the glucocerebrosidase enzyme. Links: Medical, BioTech
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1991 |
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote "The Ends of Human Life," a work on euthanasia. Links: USA, Medical, Books
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1991 |
Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann of Germany won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning single ion channels that shed light on mechanisms underlying several diseases, including diabetes and cystic fibrosis. Links: Germany, Nobel Prize, Medical
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1991 |
Miami urologist, Harold Reed brought to the US a procedure to lengthen the penis invented by a Chinese surgeon named Long Daochao. Links: China, Medical, Sex, Florida
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1991 |
A method to fertilize a human egg by a single sperm was developed. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was used to help couples in where the man has a low sperm count. Links: USA, Medical, BioTech
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1991 |
The underwater tunicate, Diazona chinensis, was discovered near the Philippine island of Siquijor. It proved to have great potential value in killing colon cancer cells but could not be found again after the initial sample was used. Links: Philippines, Medical
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