December 22 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
- Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx overdoses from heroin
- Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
- Ebola vaccine VSV-EBOV is found to be 70-100% effective in a study published in The Lancet, becoming the world's first proven vaccine against Ebola
- "American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades" - 76.4 years, according to new report by CDC, biggest factors in the fall among many, COVID-19 and drug overdoses
- US Drug Enforcement Administration says it seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American, more than 379 million doses
Born on this day
- Camille GuérinFrench veterinarian and bacteriologist, born in Poitiers, France (d. 1961)
- Haldan Keffer HartlineAmerican biophysicist (Nobel 1967), born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania (1903-1983)
- Andrew Fielding HuxleyEnglish physiologist (Nobel 1963), born in London, England (d. 2012)
- Piet De SomerBelgian physician and biologist (U of Leuven), born in Belgium (d. 1985)
- Joseph MuhlerAmerican biochemist and dentist (developed Crest - 1st fluoride toothpaste), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana (d. 1996)
- Lee SalkRussian-American child psychologist and author, born in New York, New York (d. 1992)
- Thomas C. SüdhofGerman-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Died on this day
- Percivall PottEnglish physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
- Richard von Krafft-EbingAustro–German psychiatrist and author (Psychopathia Sexualis), dies at 62
- Rose Talbot BullardAmerican medical doctor and professor (born 1864)
- Douglas RangerBritish surgeon, dies at 81
- Sebastian Arcos BergnesCuban-American dentist and activist (born 1931)
- Lim Keng YaikMalaysian physician and politician (born 1939)