March 4 in Medical History
31 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Obesity Day
Events
- A case of influenza is recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas, conventionally marking the beginning of the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic.
- The sixth President of Finland, Gustaf Mannerheim, submits his resignation for health reasons.
- Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant
- U.S. Public Health Service's publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS
- The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
- American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game.
- Film & TV HistoryKatharine Hepburn admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion
- Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
- Event of InterestUS President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
- Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos leftover from fertility treatments or abortions
- United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
- World's worst listeria outbreak suspected of killing 180 tracked to processed meat factory in Polokwane, South Africa
- COVID-19 PandemicItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces all sports in Italy will be played behind closed doors for at least a month in an effort to contain COVID-19
- Andrew Tate 's legal team states he has a dark spot on his lung, sparking rumors about lung cancer
- France is the first country in the world to enshrine access to abortion in its constitution, voting in an amendment
Born on this day
- Benjamin WaterhouseAmerican physician, co-founder of Harvard Medical School, and smallpox vaccine pioneer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846)
- William PriceWelsh physician, Chartist, and neo-Druid (died 1893)
- Norman BethuneCanadian soldier and physician (died 1939)
- William C. BoydAmerican immunochemist, discovered that blood types are inherited, born in Dearborn, Missouri (d. 1983)
- T. R. M. HowardAmerican surgeon and activist (died 1976)
- Hans EysenckGerman-born British psychologist (most frequently cited living psychologist), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1997)
- Tan Chee KhoonMalaysian physician and politician (died 1996)
- Yuri SenkevichRussian physician and explorer (died 2003)
- Khaled HosseiniAfghan author (The Kite Runner) and physician, born in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Carol BanawaFilipina singer. actress, and operating room nurse, born in Manila, Philippines
Died on this day
- Charles Scott SherringtonBritish physiologist (Nobel 1932-functions of neurons), dies at 94 (1857-1952)
- William Carlos WilliamsAmerican physician and poet (Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems), dies at 79
- Thomas StarzlAmerican surgeon, performed 1st successful liver transplant, dies at 90
- Javed AbidiIndian disability rights activist, director (NCPEDP), and founder of the Disability Rights Group, dies of a chest infection at 53
- Judy HeumannAmerican disability rights activist, and author, dies at 75