In 1968, Stanford Medicine researchers discovered that insulin resistance is the principal physiologic characteristic of mild type-II diabetes…
In 1968, University of California, San Diego Medical Center surgeons performed the region’s first kidney transplant.
In 1968, a pandemic was caused by an influenza A (H3N2) virus comprised of two genes from an…
In 1968, The first identified cases of Pontiac fever occurred in Pontiac, Michigan, among people who worked at…
In 1968, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded with famine relief in Nigeria during…
In 1968, the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) became a bureau of the U. S. Public Health Service.
In 1968, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) started a tuberculosis surveillance system in the…
In 1968, Medtronic annual sales skyrocketed to more than $12 million, with the company reporting net income in…
In 1968, the world’s first successful bone-marrow transplant was completed at the University of Minnesota Hospital under the…
In 1968, the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental Medicine was established in recognition of the increasing need…
In 1968, Gamborg Medium was developed by O.L. Gamborg as a medium of mineral salts, sucrose, vitamins and…
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, 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.