March 28 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First ambulance goes into service
- Discovery of Epstein-Barr virus, the first human tumor virus, identified by pathologists English Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr published in "Lancet"
- The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000
- 2 cases of Ebola are reported in Liberia among people who have travelled to Guinea
- Study of a 71 year-old British woman who has never felt pain, for the first time understood as due to a gene mutation, published in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- US President Donald Trump makes projection that 240,000 American could die from COVID-19, even with restrictions in place
- The region of Uusimaa (with the capital city Helsinki) is temporarily isolated from the rest of Finland due to increased COVID-19 infections.
- Mexico revises its COVID-19 death toll up by 60% to more than 321,000 giving it the second highest COVID death toll in the world
Born on this day
- Frederik RuyschDutch botanist and anatomist (died 1731)
- Emin PashaGerman explorer and governor (Equatoria), born in Oppeln, Silesia (d. 1892)
- Corneille HeymansBelgian physiologist (Nobel 1938), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1968)
- Eileen CroftonBritish physician and author (died 2010)
- Lord Butterfield [John Butterfield]British medical researcher, clinician and administrator, born in Stechford, Birmingham (d. 2000)
- Michael W. YoungAmerican geneticist noted for work studying circadian rhythms (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2017), born in Miami, Florida
Died on this day
- Francis Brett YoungBritish physician and writer (Man About the House), dies at 69
- Charles SchepensAmerican ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
- Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnetteJamaican-American pediatrician and co-founder of the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease, dies at 89