In 1947, Governor Roy J. Turner launched a fund drive that spanned all 77 of Oklahoma’s counties. In…
On Aug. 28, 1946, Oklahoma’s Secretary of State Frank C. Carter granted the charter of the Oklahoma Medical…
On Aug. 3, 1946, the articles of incorporation were signed by Governor Roy J. Turner that established the…
In 1946, The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital,Taplow, Berkshire, was built as a hospital for children which would…
In 1946, Dr. Leonidas Harris Berry became the first black physician on staff at Michael Reese Hospital in…
In 1945, the American Society for the Control of Cancer renamed American Cancer Society.
In 1945, W. Ray Bryan, Michael B. Shimkin, Howard B. Andervont, Herbert Kahler and Thelma B. Dunn published…
In 1945, the U.S. Congress passed the Penicillin Amendment, modeled on the earlier Insulin Amendment. The former required…
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…
On Nov. 17, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter to to Vannevar Bush, head of the…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
On Apr. 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann tested synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on himself. LSD-25, as originally known…
In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
In 1943, George Nicholas Papanicolaou and Herbert Traut published their landmark book “Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the…
In 1943, The Detroit Institute for Cancer Research was incorporated with just $483 and 200 shares of General…
In 1942, Dr. Jonas Salk arrived at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Techniques earned there…
In 1942, the U.S. government with the military secretly tasked a small group of Mayo Clinic physicians and…
In 1942, The Hormel Institute was founded by Jay C. Hormel in Austin to research and find a…
In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
In 1942, Dr. William Hutchinson began a 47 year career in Seattle, Washington when he joined the Swedish…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
In 1941, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Thomas Midgley by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
In 1941, Texas State Cancer Hospital, now known as the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was…
In 1941, the Medical College of Virginia Hospital (MCV West Hospital) opened to national acclaim. The largest donation…
On Sept. 6, 1940, Karl Habel produced an improved, killed rabies vaccine that eliminated foreign brain tissue that…
On Jun. 14, 1940, Charles Armstrong and V. H. Haas published Immunity to the Lansing Strain of Poliomyelitis…
In 1940, the U.S. government established a national blood collection program. That same year the National Research Council…
In 1940, Edwin Cohn, a professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School, developed cold ethanol fractionation, the…
In 1940, Charles R. Drew, MD, an African American surgeon and Howard University researcher, began an early blood…
In 1940, American Oswald Avery precipitates a pure sample of what he calls the transforming factor; he has…