Medicine and Health Stories
Treatments, vaccines, outbreaks and medical research, described as recorded by hospitals, agencies and journals.
2005
2005 · Medicine & Health
Surgeons Perform the First Partial Face Transplant
November 27, 20051997
1997 · Medicine & Health
Hong Kong Begins a Mass Poultry Cull Against Bird Flu
December 29, 19971988
1988 · Medicine & Health
The First World AIDS Day
December 1, 19881983
1983 · Medicine & Health
A French team reports isolating a virus later named HIV
May 20, 19831982
1982 · Medicine & Health
The Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart Is Implanted
December 2, 19821981
1981 · Medicine & Health
The First American IVF Baby Is Born
December 28, 19811979
1979 · Medicine & Health
An International Commission Certifies Smallpox Eradication
December 9, 19791977
1977 · Medicine & Health
Researchers identify the bacterium behind Legionnaires’ disease
January 18, 19771976
1976 · Medicine & Health
An electron microscope reveals the shape of Ebola virus
October 13, 19761967
1967 · Medicine & Health
The First Human-to-Human Heart Transplant
December 3, 19671954
1954 · Medicine & Health
The First Successful Human Kidney Transplant
December 23, 19541928
1928 · Medicine & Health