April 14 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- US Medical Corps forms
- Dr. Harry Plotz isolates the bacteria that causes typhus fever at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC
- Jack C. Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is operated on for a bleeding ulcer
- The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
- Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
- US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review of mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric," prompting international criticism
- Modi Extends LockdownPM Narendra Modi extends India's COVID-19 lockdown until May 3
- Human cells grown in monkey cells for 20 days reported by US-Chinese team at the Salk Institute in "Cell"
Born on this day
- AverroesAndalusian Arab physician and philosopher (died 1198)
- Victor HorsleyBritish physician and neuroscientist, born in London (d. 1916)
- François DuvalierDictator and President of Haiti (1957-71), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1907-1971)
- William Edgar ThorntonAmerican medical doctor, USAF officer, and NASA astronaut (STS-8; STS-51-B), born in Faison, North Carolina (d. 2021)
- Susan Cunliffe-Lister [Lady Marsham of Ilton]British disability campaigner and paralympic athlete (longest-serving female member of UK House of Lords), born in Caithness, Scotland (d. 2023)
- Richard ThompsonEnglish physician and academic
- Francis CollinsAmerican scientist who led the Human Genome Project, born in Staunton, Virginia
- Greg WinterEnglish biochemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018) known for the therapeutic use of antibodies, born in Leicester, England
- Rebecca Richards-KortumAmerican bioengineer (MacArthur prize for medical technologies for poor communities), born in Grand Island, Nebraska
Died on this day
- Lemuel HopkinsAmerican physician, poet and member of the Hartford Wits literary group, dies at 50
- L. L. ZamenhofPolish physician and linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
- Michael Scott Montague FordhamEnglish child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, dies at 89
- Alice MillerPolish-French psychologist and author (born 1923)
- Carol D'OnofrioAmerican public health researcher (born 1936)