March 2 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
- FDA in the US approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks
- Film & TV HistoryActress Claudette Colbert suffers a stroke at 89
- Sports HistoryMario Lemieux undergoes his 22nd and final radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, then joins the Pittsburgh Penguins in Philadelphia and has a goal and assist in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers
- The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the Syrian army
- Governors of Texas and Mississippi both announce they are lifting mask mandates and COVID-19 health measures despite CDC warnings of complacency
- COVID-19 PandemicDolly Parton receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine she gave $1 million to help develop
Born on this day
- Johannes EngelGerman doctor, astronomer and astrologer (died 1512)
- Joel Roberts PoinsettAmerican statesman (Minister to Mexico, 1825-29; Secretary of War, 1837-41), physician, and botanist, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1851)
- Duane Gravelinedoctor and astronaut, born in Newport Vermont (d. 2016)
- Harold FreemanAmerican oncology surgeon and founder of the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2026)
- David SatcherAmdniral and 16th United States Surgeon General (1998-2001), born in Anniston, Alabama
Died on this day
- Samuel Thomas von SömmeringGerman physician (b. 1755)
- Wilhelm OlbersGerman astronomer and physician who discovered asteroids (Pallas and Vesta), dies at 81
- Alexandre YersinSwiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
- Gisela JanuszewskaAustrian physician (born 1867)
- Mike OliverBritish sociologist, disability rights activist (born 1945)