December 2 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The first human birth is televised to the public on KOA-TV Denver, Colorado
- Ringo Starr 's tonsils are removed at University College Hospital, London, England
- Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implant a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lives for 112 days with the device
- Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to hospital for ulcer treatment
- Buhari Denies DeathNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari denies he has died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor after ill health
- The UK becomes the first western country to authorize a vaccine for COVID-19, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
- US records its largest daily death toll for COVID-19 at 2,885 and for the first time patient numbers in hospital exceed 100,000
- Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Born on this day
- George MinotAmerican physician (Nobel 1934 - introduction of a raw-liver diet in the treatment of pernicious anemia), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1950)
- Ivan Atanassov PetrovBulgarian neurologist (research on biopsy investigation of muscle and peripheral nerves in neuromuscular diseases), born in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Elizabeth BergAmerican nurse and author
- Patricia HewittAustralian-English educator and politician, English Secretary of State for Health
- Dagfinn HøybråtenNorwegian politician (leader of the Christian Democratic Party 2004–2011), born in Oslo, Norway
- Tanya PlibersekAustralian journalist and politician, 45th Australian Minister of Health
Died on this day
- Manfred SakelPolish neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, dies at 57
- Luis Federico LeloirFrench-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
- Karl H. Beyer Jr.American pharmacologist (discovered 1st drugs for hypertension and gout), dies at 82
- John KnightBritish disability rights campaigner known for helping make trains more accessible in the UK (the All Aboard campaign), dies of sepsis at 67