April 30 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Black Death Massacre: Jewish community of Radolfzell, Germany, exterminated
- American toddler Hannah Warren, (2) who was born without a trachea, becomes the youngest patient to receive a stem cell bioengineered organ; she dies of complications several months later, and surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is later convicted of research-related crimes in Europe
- New type of dementia identified and named limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (Late) after misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease
- British Captain Tom Moore, who raised more than £30 million for the National Health Service by walking in his garden, turns 100 and is made an honorary colonel by the Queen
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail V. Mishustin says he has COVID-19
- South Korea reports no new domestic cases of COVID-19 for 1st time, their virus cases peaked Feb 29
- UK PM Boris Johnson says Britain is past the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak
- Origins of COVID-19US President Donald Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence saying the virus is not manmade
- Australia announces a ban on citizens returning from India, stranding 8,000 people, and making it a criminal offence to return, amid India's COVID-19 crisis - first democratic country to do so
Born on this day
- Eugen BleulerSwiss psychiatrist (introduced the term schizophrenia to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox), born in Zollikon, Switzerland (d. 1940)
- Mary Haviland Stilwell KueselAmerican pioneer dentist (died 1936)
- Philippe PannetonCanadian physician, diplomat and writer (Trente arpents), born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec (d. 1960)
- Félix GuattariFrench psychotherapist and philosopher (died 1992)
- J. Michael BradyBritish radiologist
Died on this day
- Joseph LeidyAmerican paleontologist and author (born 1823)
- Ludwig BüchnerGerman physiologist and physician (born 1824)
- Emily StoweCanadian suffragist and first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada, dies at 71
- William H. WelchAmerican pathologist who founded John Hopkins Hospital, dies at 75
- Almroth WrightEnglish bacteriologist (developed one of 1st vaccines for typhoid), dies at 85
- Edouard Wyss-DunantSwiss physician and mountaineer (born 1897)
- Francis Avery JonesWelsh gastroenterologist, dies at 87
- Marthe GautierFrench pediatric cardiologist and researcher known for her work identifying the cause of Down Syndrome, dies at 96