In 1973, Oregon University Hospital was created through the merger of Multnomah County Hospital, Medical School Hospital and…
In 1973, Penn Medicine’s Cancer Center was formally established by a dedicated group of cancer specialists committed to…
In 1973, Stephen C. Jacobsen at University of Utah, developed the Utah Artificial Arm in 1973, the worldﾴs…
In 1973, the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center received National Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer…
In 1973, the University of California, San Diego Regional Burn Center opened, serving San Diego and Imperial counties….
On Oct. 27, 1972, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress. The CPSA…
On Jul. 1, 1972, the Regulation of Biologics–including serums, vaccines, and blood products–was transferred from the NIH to…
On Jun. 30, 1972, five U.S .cancer scientists met with Russian scientists in Moscow to exchange information on…
On Jun. 14, 1972, an end to the continued domestic usage of the pesticide DDT was decreed when…
On Jun. 5, 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden was the first…
On May 11, 1972, the Over-the-Counter Drug Review began to enhance the safety, effectiveness and appropriate labeling of…
May 5, 1972, Frank Joesph Rauscher, Jr. became the seventh director of the National Cancer Institute, serving until…
May 1972 was declared ‘National Arthritis Month’ by Congress and President Nixon.
On Apr. 10, 1972, the United States, the Soviet Union and 70 other nations signed an agreement that…
In 1972, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to George B. Kistiakowsky “to recognize distinguished services…
In 1972, Drs. Roy Hertz and Min C. Li, National Cancer Institute scientists, credited with discovering the first…
In 1972, the Division of Biologics Standards was transferred from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the U.S….
In 1972, the Tyson Feed and Hatchery name was changed to Tyson Foods.
In 1972, Livermore was the first to use flow cytometry to sort chromosomes. By the end of the…
In 1972 Stanford Medicine researchers first constructed a recombinant DNA molecule containing DNA from two different species.
In 1972, the Florida Sea Grant was established as a partnership of academia, government, and industry focused on…
In 1972, The CDC launched a national gonorrheaﾠcontrol program. Rates of gonorrhea decreased after the National Gonorrhea Control…
In 1972, the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of Education…
In 1972, Dr. Susumu Ohno, writing in the Brookhaven Symposium on Biology in the article “So Much ‘Junk…
In 1972, the Red Cross called for a national blood policy to support standardized practices and end paid…
In 1972, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new Bureau of Biologics began to regulate all 7000 U.S….
In 1972, National Academy of Sciences released Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops – a study prompted by the…
In 1972, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began a Preventative Medicine Residency (PMR/F) program…
In 1972, Washington University – St. Louis researchers Michel M. Ter-Pogossian, PhD; William Bernard, MD; and Henry G….
In 1972, Washington University ﾖ St. Louis established one of the countryﾒs first adult bone marrow transplant programs,…