January 2 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- World's Second Heart TransplantDr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world's second human heart transplant on Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town
- Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed on opiates and cocaine
- WHO reveals it will classify gaming addiction as a mental health condition in its next Classification of Diseases
- Israel becomes one of the first countries to offer a fourth vaccine dose against COVID-19 amid an Omicron surge
- Omicron SurgeUS epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci says the focus should be on hospitalizations, not case numbers, amid a huge surge in Omicron COVID-19 cases, with cases up 202% and hospitalizations up 30% in the US
- Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapses from cardiac arrest and is revived by CPR on the field during a televised NFL game against the Bengals in Cincinnati
Born on this day
- Edith B. JacksonAmerican pediatrician and child psychiatrist known for her work on rooming-in, born in Colorado Springs (d. 1977)
- Una LedinghamBritish physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (died 1965)
- Ernest SideyBritish air marshal (General of RAF Medical Services, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen), born in Alyth, Scotland (d. 2002)
- Willi GrafGerman anti-Nazi activist and member of the White Rose resistance group, born in Kuchenheim, Germany (d. 1943)
Died on this day
- Karl TargownikHungarian psychiatrist & Holocaust survivor, dies at 80
- Maclyn McCartyAmerican geneticist, dies at 93
- Frances Cress WelsingAmerican psychiatrist and author (born 1935)
- Morris WaxlerAmerican federal health official and advocate turned critic of Lasik surgery (The Unsightly Truth of Laser Vision Correction), dies of a stroke at 88