February 11 in Medical History
27 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Blaise Eastern Orthodox liturgics
- Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes (Catholic Church), and its related observance — World Day of the Sick (Roman Catholic Church)
Events
- American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
- Goldman Arrested for LectureEmma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
- BBC pioneering series "Your Life in Their Hands" first broadcast presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher, 1st major TV series to deal with medicine
- Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage AlcoholicTV drama "Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic" starring Linda Blair , premieres on US network NBC
- A national referendum in Portugal legalises non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
- Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in "Nature Medicine", A.I. won, just
- COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.
- California's COVID-19 death toll overtakes New York's, reaching 45,496 amid first sign of falling infection numbers (Johns Hopkins)
- UK Kent COVID-19 strain set "to sweep the world" and become the dominant strain globally according to UK scientist Sharon Peacock after strain detected in over 50 countries (later named Alpha)
- World's second oldest person, French nun Sister André, celebrates her 117th birthday after surviving COVID-19 in Toulon
Born on this day
- Aasa HelgesenNorwegian midwife (died 1968)
- Alfonso LengChilean dentist and composer (Doloras), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 1974)
- Ellen BroeDanish nurse, pioneer in nursing education (died 1994)
- Bernice NeugartenAmerican physiologist (work on psychology of aging), born in Norfolk, Nebraska (d. 2001)
- Virginia E. JohnsonAmerican doctor and sexologist (Masters & Johnson), born in Springfield, Missouri (d. 2013)
- Patrick SellorsBritish ophthalmologist and Surgeon-Oculist to the Queen, born in England (d. 2010)
- Mike LeavittAmerican politician, 14th Governor of Utah
- Laurent Duvernay-TardifCanadian football player and medical doctor
Died on this day
- Oswaldo CruzBrazilian physician (b. 1872)
- Axel MuntheSwedish doctor (born 1857)
- Ernest JonesWelsh psychoanalyst (biographer of Freud - Life & Work of Sigmund Freud), dies at 79
- Robert W. HolleyAmerican biochemist who worked with RNA (Nobel Prize 1968), dies at 71
- Robert W. HolleyAmerican biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
- Willem J. KolffDutch-American Physician and Biomedical Engineer (artificial kidney, hemodialysis), dies at 97
- Christian J. LambertsenAmerican Army doctor and inventor of the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU), dies at 93