Timeline History |
Medical History Timeline 1961 - 1970 |
Year | Medical Discovery / Inventions | medical articles / thesis |
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1961 | U.S. Public Health Service begins large scale use of Sabin vaccine. | Death of Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist ) | ||||||||
1962 | First oral polio vaccine (as an alternative to the injected vaccine). | U.S. Congress passes legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid. | ||||||||
1963 | Death of Allen Oldfather Whipple ( devised the Whipple procedure in 1935 for treatment of pancreatic cancer ) | Thomas Fogarty invented the "medical industry standard" balloon embolectomy catheter. | ||||||||
1964 | Firstvaccine for measles. |
Immunization Safety Review: Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine & Autism |
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1965 | Frank Pantridge installs the first portable defibrillator | U.S. Congress passes law requiring label on cigarette packages: "Warning: Cigarette Smoking may be Hazardous to your Health." | ||||||||
1966 | ||||||||||
1967 | First vaccine for mumps. | Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield , British electrical engineer, develops the CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner, a device which creates a detailed, 3-dimensional display of the body's internal organs by combining multiple, cross-sectional X-rays taken at different angles around the body. | South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs
the first human heart transplant. |
Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart |
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1968 | ||||||||||
1969 | ||||||||||
1970 | First vaccine for rubella. | Forrest Bird invented a pediatric respirator in 1970 that greatly reduced infant mortality for babies with respiratory problems. |
Rubella: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, And Annotated Research Guide To Internet References |
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Medical History Timeline 1951-1960 |
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