March 31 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Bellevue Hospital is founded in a New York City almshouse, becoming the first public hospital in the US
- US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
- NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
- 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
- 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
- Event of InterestFrench President Emmanuel Macron announces a new pandemic lockdown, closing schools for three weeks with new national restrictions
- First truly complete sequence of a human genome published by Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, after breakthroughs in new technology (previously just over 90% coded)
Born on this day
- (Yamuna) Anandibai Gopal JoshiHindu Indian medical doctor, the first Indian female educated in western medicine in the US, born in Kaylan, Bombay Presidency, British India (d. 1887)
- Karl BonhoefferGerman psychiatrist and neurologist (resisted Nazi's Aktion T4 extermination campaign), born in Neresheim, Württemberg (d. 1948)
- Herbert Meinhard MühlpfordtGerman physician and historian (died 1982)
- Yehuda NirPolish-American psychiatrist (died 2014)
- Alison McCartneyBritish ophthalmic pathologist and breast cancer campaigner, born in England (d. 1996)
Died on this day
- Emil Adolf von BehringGerman physician, won the first Nobel Prize for Physics (1901) for his serum to cure diphtheria, dies at 63
- Charles BestAmerican-Canadian medical scientist and co-discoverer of insulin, dies at 79 (1899-1978)
- Stanley J. KorsmeyerAmerican oncologist (b. 1951)
- Paul WatzlawickCommunications & Constructivism Theorist (b. 1921)
- Judith AdamsNew Zealand-Australian nurse and politician (born 1943)
- Richard FriedmanAmerican psychoanalyst who proved sexual orientation biological, dies at 79
- Gita RamjeeUgandan-South African scientist and researcher (born 1956)