August 2 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Jeff Blatnick becomes the first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics while in remission for Hodgkin’s disease
- NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus ' lung collapses
- First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"
- More than one billion people around the world need glasses and 36 million are blind, according to a new study published in "The Lancet"
- Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun" reveals Tokyo Medical University is tampering with female entrance exams to ensure fewer than 30% are accepted
- Seven-year-old boy undergoes surgery after 526 teeth are found inside his mouth in Chennai, India
- Australian state of Victoria announces state of disaster and imposes further lockdown measures after spike in COVID-19 cases
- South Africa confirms over 500,000 cases of COVID-19 with 10,107 deaths, highest total on the African continent
- US Meets Vaccination Target70% of American have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot, a target President Joe Biden had hoped to meet by 4 July
- Aerosmith Cancels TourAmerican rock band Aerosmith cancels their "Peace Out: The Farewell Tour" and retires from touring due to a vocal cord injury of singer Steven Tyler (76)
Born on this day
- Theodor ZwingerSwiss physician and scholar, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1588)
- Reginald MurleyBritish surgeon and President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1977-80), born in England (d. 1997)
- Augustus RoweCanadian physician and politician (died 2013)
- Ismond RosenSouth African born psychoanalyst and artist (book on Sexual Deviation), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1996)
- John HannamBritish Conservative politician (Member of Parliament for Exeter 1970-97), and disability rights advocate, born in the UK
- Billy CannonAmerican College Football Hall of Fame back and tight end (Heisman Trophy 1959, LSU; AFL C'ship 1960, 61, 67; AFL All-Star 1961, 69; Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders), born in Philadelphia, Mississippi (1937-2018)
- Beko Ransome-KutiNigerian physician and activist (died 2006)
Died on this day
- Alessandro AchilliniItalian physician and philosopher, dies at 48
- Peter SafarAustrian physician (pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR), dies at 79
- Sidney ZionAmerican journalist who campaigned for medical residents to work limited hours (The Libby Zion Law), dies of cancer at 75
- Baruj BenacerrafVenezuelan-American immunologist (Nobel 1980 - discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases), dies at 90
- Forrest BirdAmerican aviator and inventor (1st respirators and ventilators), dies at 94