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1994 Oct 10 |
Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell of the US won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery of G-proteins and how cells confuse messages and foster diseases. Links: USA, Nobel Prize, Medical, Biology 
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1994 Nov 7 |
James Winston Watts (90), developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, died. Links: USA, Medical
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1994 Nov 8 |
Bill Frist, M.D., was elected Senator from Tennessee. His family founded the HCA hospital chain. In 1989 Frist authored “Transplant, A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-And-Death Dramas of the New Medicine.” Links: USA, Tennessee, Medical
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China passed rules that permitted executed prisoners to donate organs with written consent by the prisoner of relatives. Links: China, Medical
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The World Journal, a Chinese-language newspaper based in new York reported that blood products in China were contaminated with the AIDS virus. Links: China, Medical, AIDS, Journalism
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Tennessee, facing a $250 million deficit in Medicaid administration, gave several managed-care organizations the job of administering the program, TennCare. By the end of 2004 costs rose to $8 billion. Links: USA, Tennessee, Medical
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Quintiles, a medical contract research organization, went public. It was founded by Prof. Dennis Gillings of the Univ. of North Carolina. Links: USA, Medical, North Carolina
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In America 80 million prescriptions were written for drugs that act as calcium channel blockers (CCBs). They were used to treat high blood pressure, angina, cardiac arrhythmias and migraine headaches. Links: USA, Medical, Pharma
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Polly C.E. Matzinger, immunologist, began challenging the self/nonself concept of immune activation and proposed the "danger" theory where the immune system lies quietly on guard until it receives a signal that tissues somewhere in the body are dying unnatural deaths. Links: Medical, Biology, BioTech
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At the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota the 1st successful heart-lung transplant was performed. Links: USA, Minnesota, Medical, Heart
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Marvin Minsky wrote in a Scientific American article that: "In the end we will find ways to replace every part of the body and brain and thus repair all the defects and injuries that make our lives so brief." Links: USA, Medical, Brain
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In China the Maternal Infant Health Care Law was passed. It guaranteed pediatric health care to poor women and stipulated that couples be informed of any genetic problems. It also directed doctors to take steps to prevent childbearing in the event of detected problems. Links: China, Medical
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1994 |
Leonard Hayflick (b.1928) authored “How and Why We Age.” Links: USA, Medical, Biology, Books
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1995 Feb 8 |
US Surgeon General nominee Henry Foster said in an ABC interview he'd performed 39 abortions, more than three times as many as previously stated. Links: USA, Medical
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1995 Mar 30 |
Pope John Paul II issued the 11th encyclical of his papacy in which he condemned abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize. Links: Vatican, Medical
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1995 Jun 23 |
Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, California, at age 80. Links: USA, California, Microbiology, Medical, Polio
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1995 Jun 24 |
In his weekly radio address, President Clinton blamed the failed nomination of Dr. Henry Foster to be surgeon general on right-wing extremists who, he said, would "stop at nothing" to outlaw abortion. Links: USA, Medical, ClintonB
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1995 Aug 10 |
Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Links: USA, Medical, Supreme Court
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1995 Sep 15 |
The UN Fourth World Conference on Women adjourned in Beijing after approving a wide-ranging platform running the gamut from promoting inheritance rights to condemning rape in wartime. The Beijing Platform, signed by 189 states, urged a review of all laws that punish women for having abortions. Links: China, UN, Women, Medical, Rape
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1995 Sep 21 |
US House Republicans unveiled partial details of their plan for Medicare aimed at achieving $270 billion in savings over seven years. Links: USA, Medical
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1995 Oct 9 |
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Edward Lewis of Caltech, Eric Wieschaus of Princeton, and Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard of Germany's Max Planck Inst. They all studied genes in relation to embryonic development. They unraveled the developmental genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila and discovered homologs of the same genes in vertebrates. Links: USA, Germany, Nobel Prize, Medical
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1995 Oct 19 |
Ignoring a veto threat, the US House passed a Republican plan for overhauling Medicare by raising premiums for the elderly and disabled and saving billions from hospital and doctor fees. Links: USA, Medical
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1995 Nov |
It was reported that about 540,000 people will die of cancer this year in the US. Links: USA, Medical, Cancer
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1995 Dec 14 |
AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. The experimental procedure at a San Francisco hospital was criticized by animal rights activists. The transplant failed, but Getty survived. Links: USA, SF, Medical, AIDS, Primates
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1995 |
Haskell Norman (1915-1996) authored "One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine." Links: Medical, Books
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Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group "Operation Rescue," authored "The Judgement of God." Links: Medical, Books
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1995 |
Genentech began Phase III clinical trials for Herceptin to fight breast cancer. Doctors Dennis Slamon and Alex Unrich worked with the HER-2/neu gene and protein that triggered breast cancer and developed an antibody against it. The drug was approved by the FDA in 1998. Links: Medical, BioTech, Cancer
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Dr. Paul Dowd (1936-1996) suggested that Vitamin E, a potent antioxidant, can help keep cholesterol from clogging arteries. Links: Medical, Biology
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The American Pain Society urged that pain be treated as a 5th vital sign. In 1999 American VA hospitals began a system wide notation for pain. Links: USA, Medical
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1995 |
Agnes Plumb (1908-1996) died. She left behind a $107 million fortune, nearly all of which she donated to 4 medical institutions. Much of Plumb's fortune amassed from an investment made by her father to Kellogg Co. over 70 years ago, early in the cereal manufacturer's history. The stock split and doubled several times over the years, until the 1.3 million shares had a cash value estimated at about $96 million. Links: Medical, Donation
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Germany devised a compromise abortion law that permitted abortions within the first 12 weeks with the issuance of a counseling certificate. Links: Germany, Medical
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1996 Jan 1 |
Bayer Corp. added Betty Rubble to its mix of Flintstone vitamins. Links: Medical, Pharma
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1996 Jan 23 |
Sandra Jensen became the first person with Down syndrome to receive a new heart and Lungs. The surgery was done at Stanford Univ. Links: USA, California, Medical, Heart
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1996 Jan 24 |
The FDA approved a fat substitute to be marketed by Proctor and Gamble under the name Olestra. It is know to cause abdominal cramps but not to a medically significant degree. Links: Medical, Food, Pharma, FDA
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1996 Jan |
Three large medical purchasing groups merged to form Premiere Inc., and controlled the buying of supplies for about one-third of the nation’s hospitals. Links: Medical, M&A
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1996 Feb 5 |
John C. Salvi the Third went on trial in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the shooting deaths of two receptionists at abortion clinics. Salvi was later convicted and sentenced to two life terms; he was found dead in his cell in November 1996, an apparent suicide. Links: Massachusetts, Medical, Lawsuit
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1996 May 7 |
In San Diego, Ca., Alzheimer’s researcher, Tsunao Saitoh and his daughter, 13-year-old Loullie, were shot and killed. In 1993 he identified a protein that is deposited in plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. In 1995 he learned that the protein was controlled by chromosome 4 and was searching for its exact location when he was killed. Links: California, Medical, Murder, Brain
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1996 May 22 |
Amnesty International reported that Iraqi doctors were forced to cut off the ears of alleged deserters and that Kenyan doctors were pressured to ignore evidence of torture. Links: Iraq, Kenya, Medical
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1996 Jun 4 |
A report on China focused on tens of millions of people suffering from iodine deficiency. The effects of the deficiency has led to stunted lives and intellects. Where goiter and cretinism are not visibly apparent, chronic mental and physical fatigue and some degree of mental impairment was widespread. Links: China, Medical
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1996 Jun 5 |
2001 A Medicare report predicted that the federal health system for the elderly would be bankrupt by the year 2001. Links: USA, Medical
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1996 Jun 26 |
At least 30 children died of acute kidney failure after taking contaminated liquid acetaminophen made by a company in Haiti. Another 38 were being treated for acute kidney failure. Glycerin from China was contaminated with diethylene glycol as it was shipped to Haiti. It was then used in children's medication that killed 86 people from 1995-1996. Links: Haiti, China, Medical, Pharma, Kids
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1996 Jul 19 |
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended, with some conditions, that the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 be approved. Links: USA, Medical, Pharma, FDA
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1996 Jul 26 |
It was announced that researchers had devised a new small molecule that may be used in pill form to replace large molecules which up to now needed to be injected. Links: Medical, Biology, BioTech
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1996 Aug 8 |
Medical researchers successfully cured patients with sickle-cell anemia by using a risky bone-marrow transplant technique. Links: Medical, BioTech
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1996 Aug |
The main ingredient of Redux and other diet drugs was linked to a rare but deadly lung disorder. Links: Medical, Food, Pharma
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1996 Aug |
In Kenya a new rite was instituted as an alternative to female circumcision. The "ntanira na mugambo" (circumcision through words) rite included a week-long counseling program capped by a "coming of age day." Links: Kenya, Medical
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1996 Sep 18 |
The Food and Drug Administration declared the French abortion pill RU-486 safe and effective, but withheld final approval until later. The pill would be taken with the drug misoprostol, which was already approved for other purposes. Links: Medical, Pharma, FDA
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1996 Sep 19 |
IBM announced it would extend health benefits to the partners of its homosexual employees. Links: USA, Gays, Medical
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1996 Sep 26 |
President Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day hospital stays for new mothers and their babies. Links: USA, Medical, ClintonB
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1996 Sep 26 |
The New England Journal of Medicine reported new research that would provide a simple test for mad cow disease based on a protein specific to the disease. Links: Medical, Mad Cow
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1996 Oct 7 |
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was won by Australian Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel from Switzerland for their work on how the immune system recognizes infected cells. Links: Australia, Switzerland, Nobel Prize, Sweden, Medical
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1996 Oct 16 |
In Egypt two girls, 4 & 3, died from bleeding after being circumcised at their homes by a government doctor. Links: Egypt, Medical
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1996 Nov 8 |
Cheyenne Pyle, the youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old), was born in Miami and flown to California for surgery. The infant did not survive. Links: California, Medical, Florida
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1996 Dec 30 |
The Clinton administration said that doctors who prescribe marijuana could be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid programs and lose the right to prescribe drugs. Voters in California and Arizona had approved measures for medical use of marijuana. Links: USA, California, Medical, Arizona, ClintonB
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In California a 63-year-old woman, Arceli Keh, gave birth to a healthy baby girl after taking fertility drugs. She became the oldest known woman to give birth. Links: California, Medical
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Dr. Stuart Meloy found that an electro-stimulator, designed by Medtronic to interrupt pain signals, induced orgasms in women when applied to a certain point in mid spine. Links: Medical, Sex
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India outlawed sex determination tests to reduce gender-based abortions. Links: India, Medical
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A North Korean defector in 1997 claimed that the government had banned abortions and was encouraging women to bear children to increase the population in order to maintain the army. Links: North Korea, Medical
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In Nigeria Pfizer Inc. tested an unapproved drug on children for an often deadly strain of meningitis. In 2006 Nigerian medical experts concluded that Pfizer violated international law and was never authorized by the Nigerian government to give the unproven drug Trovan to nearly 100 children and infants at a field hospital in Kano, where they were being treated. Links: Medical, Nigeria, Pharma
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1997 Jan 4 |
President Clinton, in his weekly radio address, took credit for policies reducing teen-age pregnancy and said he would work for even greater reductions over the next four years. Links: USA, Medical, Sex, ClintonB
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