In 1968, St. Jude researchers find that chemotherapy is effective against Ewing sarcoma, one of the most frequent…
In 1968, Ivan R. Sabel founded Capital Orthopedics. In 1986, Colorado-based Sequel Corporation acquired Capital Orthopedics. As President…
In 1968, the first heart transplant at the Medical College of Virginia was performed by Dr. Richard R….
In 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University was created through the merger of Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College…
In 1968, the Regional Lions Clubs band together to establish the Northwest Lions Eye Bank.
In 1968, an Institutional Patent Agreement was signed between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and Department of Health,…
On Dec. 28, 1967, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Mercks mumps virus vaccine live (MumpsVax)….
On Dec. 3, 1967, surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first human to human heart transplant in Cape Town,…
On Oct. 27, 1967, Dr. Lester R. Sauvage performed the first ﾓbloodlessﾔ open-heart surgery in the Northwest on…
On Sept. 18, 1967, the FAO and the International Biological Programme put on the second major conference on…
In 1967, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Ralph Connor “to recognize distinguished services to…
On May 18, 1967, Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington signed a law that repealed the prohibition of teaching evolution…
On Feb. 13, 1967, a cancer research center, USPHS Hospital, was established in Baltimore by the institute to…
On Jan. 15, 1967, Dr. William Lakey performed Alberta’s first organ transplant, a kidney, at the University of…
In 1967, Clara Claiborne Park, an American college English teacher, published one of the first parent memoirs about…
In 1967, a bacterial P450 was first found in Rhizobium bacteroids.
In 1967, a national Rare Blood Donor Registry was established for blood types occurring less than once in…
In 1967, the guaiac fecal occult blood test (FOBT) was introduced as a screening test for colorectal cancer….
In 1967, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transfered responsibility for quarantine to the National Communicable…
In 1967, the term genetic resources was coined by Sir Otto Frankel, a renowned plant breeder from Australia.
In 1967, the National Academy of Sciences reported that the practice of adding antibiotics to animal food, while…
In 1967, Carl Woese, an American microbiologist, suggested that RNA was the earliest source of genetic information.
In 1967, the Global Smallpox Eradication Program was launched by WHO. During the first year of the program,…
In 1967, Dr. H.G. Pereira and colleagues propose a relationship between human and avian flu viruses after a…
In 1967, the construction of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was completed. the original Institute buildings were…
In 1967, Stanford Medicine researchers become the first to synthesize biologically active DNA in test tube.
In 1967, UC San Diego began operating ﾓUniversity Hospitalﾔ as its primary clinical teaching facility.
In 1967, the Foreign Quarantine Service was transferred to CDC from the U.S. Public Health Service. The CDC…
In 1967, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Programﾠ(MACDP),…
In 1967, Medtronic opened a service center at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Staffed round-the-clock, the Schiphol Depot provided physicians…