June 25 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Vitiligo Day
Events
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
- MLB Montreal Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
- Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
- Obamacare SurvivesThe Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies are upheld by the US Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling in King v. Burwell
- San Francisco, California is the first major US city to ban e-cigarettes
- Australian airline Qantas announces it is cutting 6,000 jobs, a fifth of its workforce because of the pandemic
- US Center of Disease Control estimates 20 million people in America have been infected with COVID-19, 10 times higher than confirmed cases
- WHO declares the Ebola outbreak in the Congo over. The second worst outbreak, it killed 2,280 people over 2 years
- Delta VariantWHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms the COVID-19 Delta variant is the most transmissible to date, now present in 85 countries and spreading rapidly
- Finland says it give preemptive bird flu vaccinations for at risk workers - the first country in the world to do so
Born on this day
- Wilhelm FabryGerman surgeon (Father of German surgery), born in Hilden, Germany (d. 1634)
- Eloísa DíazChilean doctor and Chile's first female physician (died 1950)
- Shirō IshiiJapanese microbiologist and general (died 1959)
- William H. SteinAmerican biochemist (Nobel 1972), born in New York (d. 1980)
- Larry KramerAmerican playwright and AIDS activist, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 2020)
- Olivier AmeisenFrench-American cardiologist and educator (died 2013)
Died on this day
- Michele MercatiItalian physician and gardener (Vatican Botanical Garden), dies at 52
- Ephraim McDowellAmerican physician and surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery), dies at 58
- John Boyd OrrScottish physician (Nobel Peace Prize 1949 - Father of the Food and Agriculture Organization), dies at 90
- John MewBritish orthodontist who developed the practice of mewing, dies at 96