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The Flintstones and Flintstones Vitamins

July 30, 2020 Jess Sahen 0

The Flintstones made their television premier in 1960. It was the same year that Miles Laboratories, owners of 1-A-Day vitamins introduced “Chocks”, the first chewable vitamins for kids. It was a good idea, but kids […]

Mass Polio Vaccines in Pennsylvania

July 2, 2019 Gkiadmin 0

Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, is a terrible illness that affected throngs of children that could lead to a stiffness of the limbs, muscle deterioration, paralysis and even death. Thankfully, virologist Jonas Salk invented a […]

First Birth Control Pill Goes on the Market

July 2, 2019 Gkiadmin 0

The morning-after pill has joined cultural jargon over the years in film and the lifestyle of others. The pill was originally prescribed by the FDA to women who were facing menstrual disorders. The revolutionary concept […]

1964 First Measles Vaccine

April 30, 2019 Robbi D 0

During an outbreak of measles in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954, Dr. Thomas C. Peebles and John F. Enders collected blood samples from numerous ill students. Their goal was to isolate the strain of the measles […] […]

First Oral Polio Vaccine

April 30, 2019 Robbi D 0

A meeting between Chumakov and Sabin transpired in 1956. In the said meeting, Sabin presented his strains of the vaccine and his results to Chumakov, who then started to produce it for his country. Because […] […]

Dr. Christiaan Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant.

April 29, 2019 Robbi D 0

An amazing event happened on the 3rd of December, 1967 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. There, Dr. Christiaan “Chris” Barnard performed the very first heart transplant from one human donor to a […] […]

1957 Artificial Heart in Dog

April 23, 2019 Robbi D 0

With the guidance of their forebearers, Dr. Willem Kolff and Dr. Tetsu-zo Akutsu were able to implant a TAH (total artificial heart) in an animal from their Cleveland Clinic in the US back in 1957. […] […]

1955 First Polio Vaccine by Jonas Salk

April 23, 2019 Robbi D 0

Dr. Jonas Salk, an American medical researcher, made an announcement on a national radio show on March 26, 1953, that he has completed his vaccine against poliomyelitis—the virus that causes polio. In 1952 (the same […] […]

1952 Heart Pacemaker Implanted

April 23, 2019 Robbi D 0

The American College of Surgeons had a meeting in Boston back in 1950. The agenda was about the stimulation of the sino-atrial node through a transvenous catheter. This inspired Paul Zoll to refine a system […] […]

Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart Implanted into Barney Clark

April 23, 2019 Robbi D 0

The FDA’a approval of Jarvik 7 happened just in time for Barney Clark’s need for an artificial heart. The device was named after Dr. Robert Jarvik, who had been refining and building artificial hearts since […] […]