December 7 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- American visual artist Chuck Close (48) suffers a spinal artery collapse leaving him paralyzed from the neck down
- American singer Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
- Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
- Former US gymnastics physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years on child pornography charges
- Australian states celebrate "Freedom Day" easing COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria and New South Wales
- Most of California begins second lockdown as hospitals come under strain and the state records average of 21,000 COVID-19 cases a day
- After widespread public protests, China announces a major loosening of COVID-19 restrictions for the entire country, allowing home quarantine and scrapping QR codes, effectively ending China's zero-COVID policy
Born on this day
- Josef HyrtlAustrian anatomist, born in Eisenstadt, Austria (d. 1894)
- Theodor SchwannGerman physician , physiologist and co-originator of cell theory (Schwann cells; pepsin; metabolism), born in Neuss, French Empire (1810-1882)
- Mortimer SacklerAmerican philanthropist, psychiatrist and co-owner of Purdue Pharma the company that created OxyContin, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2010)
- Miroslav MacekCzech dentist and politician (died 2024)
Died on this day
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny1st President of Ivory Coast (Democratic Party: 1960-93) known as the "Sage of Africa", dies of prostate cancer at 88 (1905-1993)
- Martin RodbellAmerican biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
- Roelof KruisingaDutch physician and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (born 1922)