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Average life expectancy is 47.3 is the United States
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Georgia becomes the first state to completely ban all forms of cocaine (pictured) use, in this year
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Pennsylvania's School of Medicine (pictured) establishes the first medical research chair in America
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The Band-Aid is invented by Earle Dickson (pictured) in this year. The Band-Aid was the first easy to use, sterile adhesive.
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First Tetanus vaccine (pictured) was proven to be a success during WW2, but was first produced in 1930. The use of this vaccine has reduced cases of tetanus by 93%
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General belief is that psychiatric disorders, such as Schizophrenia, were antagonistic disorders, this led to Ladislas J. Meduna (pictured) treating patients with these disorders with moderate electric shocks. It is still used today for patients with severe depression, mania or catatonia.
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Albert Hofmann (pictured) synthesized LSD today, five years later he discovered its psychedelic properties.
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Dr. Charles Richard Drew (pictured) is credited with the invention of the blood bank in this year.
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A 67 year old woman is the first ever patient to successfully receive kidney dialysis, from Dutch physician, Dr. Willem Kolff (pictured).
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Performed on a 44-year old woman, Ruth Tucker (pictured), in Illinois.
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Polio vaccine is released to the public in this year, after being invented 8 years previously by Jonas Salk (pictured).
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The world's first permanent, fully implantable pacemaker (pictured) was implanted into a man in Sweden in this year. The device did, however, fail after three hours.
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First successful human liver transplant occurs in this year, with a team led by Dr. Thomas Starzl (pictured) in the United States.
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First heart transplant performed on an adult patient. The patient Louis Washkansky (pictured) received the surgery in Cape Town, South Africa.
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This surgery was the first heart transplant performed in the United States (Brooklyn, New York). This was performed by Adrian Kantrowitz (pictured)
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First rubella vaccine. This was combined with a vaccine for the measles and mumps, which is known as MMR (pictured).
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The only disease to ever be completely wiped out by human efforts, confirmed on this day.
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Patented in 1977 by Shel Kaplan, then made public in this year.
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In the United States, in this year, AIDS is observed clinically for the first time.
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American doctor, Robert Jarvik (pictured), is the first to create a permanent artificial heart in this year.
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World's first vaccine (pictured) against pneumonia is released.
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Dr. Charles S. Lieber (pictured) releases a report stating that women are more susceptable to alcohol intoxication than men.
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Chickenpox vaccine (pictured) introduced in the US in this year.
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New life expectancy is 77.85 in the United States.
