Today in Medical History

April 27 in Medical History

16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Events

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  1. 1990Sports HistoryMLB Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgeryNotable person's healthOnThisDay
  2. 2021Pfizer announces it is working on a new antiviral therapy to treat COVID-19 at its onset and prevent hospitalizationDrug / VaccineOnThisDay
  3. 2021COVID-19 PandemicBrazil's Senate orders an official inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro ' and government official's handling of the COVID-19 pandemicDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  4. 2022US CDC report finds that more than half of people (57.7%) had antibodies for COVID-19 by February 2022, with 75.2% of children and teenagersDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay
  5. 2023Findings from the Zoonomia Project are published, in which the genomes of 240 mammals are collected and compared; they reveal that 10.7% of the human genome is identical across almost all speciesDiscovery / ResearchOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1903Hans KosterlitzGerman-British biochemist (endorphins), born in Berlin (d. 1996)Medical scientistOnThisDay
  2. 1922Sheila ScottBritish aviator who completed the 1st round-the-world solo flight by a British woman, born in Worcester, Worcestershire, England (1922-1988)Nurse / MidwifeWikipedia
  3. 1928Sybil ShainwaldAmerican lawyer specialising in cases involving women's health, born in New York City (d. 2025)Health leader / ActivistOnThisDay
  4. 1937Richard PerhamEnglish biologist and academic (died 2015)Medical scientistWikipedia
  5. 1953Ellen S. BakerAmerican physician and NASA astronaut (STS 34, STS 50, STS 71), born in Fayetteville, North CarolinaPhysician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  6. 1962Edvard MoserNorwegian psychologist and neuroscientist (2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology for discovery of place cells), born in Ålesund, NorwayMedical scientistOnThisDay

Died on this day

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  1. 2011Orlando BoschCuban-American pediatrician and anti-Castro militant (acquitted of the 1976 airliner bombing), dies at 84Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  2. 2015Bodil Schmidt-NielsenDanish-born American physiologist who was the first female president of the American Physiological Society, dies at 96 (1918-2015)Medical scientistOnThisDay
  3. 2017Julius YoungnerAmerican virologist, helped develop Salk polio vaccine, dies at 96Medical scientistOnThisDay
  4. 2026Bridget OgilvieAustralian parasitologist and director of the Wellcome Trust (1991-98), dies at 88Medical scientistOnThisDay
  5. 2026Edith Eva Eger (née Elefánt)Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor, clinical psychologist and author (The Choice: Embrace the Possible), dies at 98Psychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.