May 7 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia
- MLB Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score is hit in the face by a line drive by New York Yankees Gil McDougald at Municipal Stadium; Score misses the rest of the season
- Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
- Toxic leak at Indian chemical factory near Visakhapatnam kills at least 13 and injures many when it tried to reopen after lockdown
- The World Health Organization approves the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm, its first made by a non-western country
Born on this day
- Gerard van SwietenDutch-Austrian physician (Austrian Empress Maria Theresa's personal physician), born in Leiden, Netherlaands (d. 1772)
- Isla van DiestBelgian physician, 1st female doctor and 1st female university graduate in Belgium, born in Louvain, Belgiun (d. 1916)
- Mary Eliza MahoneyAmerican nurse and activist (died 1926)
- Lowell T. CoggeshallAmerican medical scientist and US Secretary of HEW (1956-58), born in Saratoga, Indiana (d. 1987)
- Frederick Pei LiChinese-American cancer epidemiologist known for helping discover Li-Fraumeni syndrome, born in Canton, China (d. 2015)
- Anne Marie RaffertyEnglish nurse and academic
- Ara DarziBaron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic
Died on this day
- Paul PophamAmerican soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (born 1941)
- Jeremy D. SafranCanadian-born American clinical psychologist, is killed during a burglary
- Jean VanierCanadian philosopher and disabilities advocate, dies at 90
- Joy SchaverienBritish psychoanalyst and author (Boarding School Syndrome), dies at 82