March 25 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 97% of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration
- The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of "mad cow disease" (BSE).
- First organ transplant between a live HIV donor and an HIV recipient with a kidney transplant in Boston, Massachusetts
- Spain's death toll from COVID-19 overtakes China's at 3,434 to become then second worldwide behind Italy with 7,503 deaths with a worldwide toll of 20,836
- COVID-19 PandemicUnited Kingdom's Prince Charles tests positive for COVID-19
- US President Joe Biden announces a new goal of 200 million vaccinations in his administration's first 100 days (previously 100 million)
- First widespread outbreak of bird flu in cows reported at farms in six US states, including one person at a Texas dairy farm
- A California jury finds Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in lawsuit accusing the tech giants of negligence, intentionally designing addictive platforms, and failing to provide adequate warnings, thereby injuring a young woman's mental health; plaintiff is awarded nearly $6 million, Snap and TikTok had quietly settled their aspects of the case before trial
Born on this day
- Simon FlexnerAmerican pathologist and first Director of Rockefeller Institute, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1946)
- Gustaaf SchamelhoutFlemish physician and writer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1944)
- Horatio Nelson JacksonAmerican race car driver and physician (died 1955)
- Siegfried HandloserGerman military physician (WWI; WWII - Chief of Armed Services Medical Services, 1942-44), and convicted Nazi war criminal, born in Konstanz, Germany (d. 1954)
- Leslie AverillNew Zealand doctor and soldier (died 1981)
- Stephen DorrellEnglish soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health
- Debi ThomasAmerican figure skater and physician
Died on this day
- Gerardus BlasiusFlemish anatomist, dies at about 66
- James BraidScottish surgeon (b. 1795)
- Ernst von BergmannLatvian-German surgeon and academic (born 1836)
- Marie KroghDanish physician (co-founder of Novo Nordisk), dies of breast cancer at 68 (1874-1943)
- Milton H. EricksonAmerican psychiatrist and psychologist, dies at 78
- Graham SerjeantBritish doctor and researcher known for his work on sickle cell disease in Jamaica, dies at 86