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Life expectancy
Average life expectancy is 47.3 is the United States -
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Medicine of the modern age
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Cocaine ban
Georgia becomes the first state to completely ban all forms of cocaine (pictured) use, in this year -
Medical Research
Pennsylvania's School of Medicine (pictured) establishes the first medical research chair in America -
Band-Aid
The Band-Aid is invented by Earle Dickson (pictured) in this year. The Band-Aid was the first easy to use, sterile adhesive. -
Tetanus Vaccine
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% -
Electroconvulsive therapy
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. -
LSD synthesized
Albert Hofmann (pictured) synthesized LSD today, five years later he discovered its psychedelic properties. -
Blood Bank invention
Dr. Charles Richard Drew (pictured) is credited with the invention of the blood bank in this year. -
Dialyzer is first used successfully
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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First human kidney transplant
Performed on a 44-year old woman, Ruth Tucker (pictured), in Illinois. -
Polio Vaccine
Polio vaccine is released to the public in this year, after being invented 8 years previously by Jonas Salk (pictured). -
First pacemaker patient
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. -
Liver transplantation
First successful human liver transplant occurs in this year, with a team led by Dr. Thomas Starzl (pictured) in the United States. -
First heart transplant
First heart transplant performed on an adult patient. The patient Louis Washkansky (pictured) received the surgery in Cape Town, South Africa. -
First pediatric heart transplant
This surgery was the first heart transplant performed in the United States (Brooklyn, New York). This was performed by Adrian Kantrowitz (pictured) -
Rubella Vaccine
First rubella vaccine. This was combined with a vaccine for the measles and mumps, which is known as MMR (pictured). -
Global eradication of Smallpox
The only disease to ever be completely wiped out by human efforts, confirmed on this day. -
Epipen is made public
Patented in 1977 by Shel Kaplan, then made public in this year. -
Clinical observation of AIDS
In the United States, in this year, AIDS is observed clinically for the first time. -
Artificial heart
American doctor, Robert Jarvik (pictured), is the first to create a permanent artificial heart in this year. -
Pneeumonia vaccine
World's first vaccine (pictured) against pneumonia is released. -
Alcohol susceptibility
Dr. Charles S. Lieber (pictured) releases a report stating that women are more susceptable to alcohol intoxication than men. -
Chickenpox vaccine
Chickenpox vaccine (pictured) introduced in the US in this year. -
Life expectancy
New life expectancy is 77.85 in the United States.
