June 5 in Medical History
27 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dutch Disability laws go into effect
- NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
- The AIDS epidemic officially begins when the US Centers for Disease Control reports cases of pneumonia in five gay men in Los Angeles
- "Nightline" presents its first "Town Meeting," the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM
- Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation and wins the game
- 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
- 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- Gray's Anatomy ShowSpalding Gray 's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" opens an encore run at Beaumont Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances
- Alex Puccio sustains a knee injury during the IFSC World Cup competition in Vail, Colorado, requiring surgery
- Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over
- Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
- On average, people ingest 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathe in similar amount, according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"
- Australian woman Kathleen Folbigg is pardoned after 20 years in prison for the murder of her four children, after new genetic research found evidence of gene disorders in the children
Born on this day
- Pierre Jean George CabanisFrench physiologist, born in Cosnac, Corrèze, France (d. 1808)
- William E. UpjohnAmerican physician who invented dissolvable pills (Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company), born in Richland, Michigan (d. 1932)
- Allvar GullstrandSwedish physician (Nobel 1911), born in Landskrona, Sweden (d. 1930)
- Mary Helen YoungScottish nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (died 1945)
- Charles FletcherBritish pioneering physician and TV presenter (wrote the 1st report into the dangers of smoking), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1995)
- Ann CraftBritish social worker, scholar, and advocate for disability rights (Ann Craft Trust), born in Aldershot, England (d. 1997)
- Breonna TaylorAfrican American medical technician who was shot and killed by police officers in her home, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (1993-2020)
Died on this day
- Gerard KrausDutch psychiatrist and director Santpoort (Insanity in the Netherlands), dies at 57
- Edith B. JacksonAmerican pediatrician and child psychiatrist known for her work on rooming-in, dies at 82
- Jan ZeldenrustDutch pathologist and anatomist, dies at 83
- Pedro Laín EntralgoSpanish writer, medical and humanist, dies at 93
- Michel OstynBelgian physiologist and physician (born 1924)
- Tomisaku KawasakiJapanese pediatrician known for discovering Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome), dies at 95
- Akira EndoJapanese biochemist, first to develop statins, dies at 90