March 10 in Medical History
25 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Events
- CBS' premiere of "A Circle of Children", starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
- Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
- Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
- COVID-19 PandemicNew York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of COVID-19 detected
- COVID-19 PandemicThree months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths
- True global death toll from COVID-19 estimated at 18.2 million in new study by Washington University
- Thai health authorities report 1.3 million people have suffered air pollution-related diseases in 2023 in northern Thailand due to smog nearly 125 times WHO standards from farm burning and forest fires
- First pig liver transplanted into a clinically dead human for 10 days, in milestone test for animal organ transplants into people, at Xijing Hospital, Xi’an, China
Born on this day
- Marcello MalpighiItalian physician who founded the science of microscopic anatomy, born in Crevalcore, near Bologna, Papal States (d. 1694)
- Georg StellerGerman naturalist and explorer (Great Northern Expedition), born in Bad Windsheim, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1746)
- José María VargasVenezuelan doctor, botanist and 2nd President of Venezuela (1835-36), born in La Guaira, Venezuela (d. 1854)
- Lillian WaldAmerican pioneering nurse and social activist who started American community nursing with the Henry Street Settlement in NYC, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (1867-1940)
- Odile BuissonFrench gynecologist, advocate for women's right to pleasure
- Laurel ClarkAmerican naval officer and NASA astronaut (died in Columbia space shuttle disaster), born in Ames, Iowa (d. 2003)
Died on this day
- Rembert Dodoens [Rembert Van Joenckema]Flemish physician and botanist, dies at 67
- Theodor ZwingerSwiss physician and scholar, dies at 54
- Petrus ForestusDutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
- Urban HjärneSwedish chemist, geologist, and physician (born 1641)
- Harriet TubmanAmerican abolitionist , former slave and humanitarian (Underground Railroad), dies at about 91 [birth date uncertain] (1820/1822-1913)
- Wilbur ScovilleAmerican pharmacist and chemist (born 1865)
- Herman TarnowerAmerican cardiologist (The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet), shot and killed by ex-girlfriend Jean Harris at 69
- Minoru ShirotaJapanese microbiologist and founder of the Yakult Honsha beverage company, dies at 82
- David GunnAmerican physician, killed by anti-abortionist Michael Griffin at 47
- Michael WoodruffEnglish surgeon and scientist (organ transplantation), dies at 89