September 20 in Medical History
7 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%
- Pfizer announces they have developed a safe COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds with a dose one-third of the strength
Born on this day
- Nikolai SemashkoSoviet statesman and health official (People’s Commissar of Public Health, created Semashko healthcare model), born in Yelets, Russian Empire (d. 1949)
Died on this day
- Eduard WirthsNazi physician at Auschwitz , commits suicide at 36 (1909-1945)
- F. John LewisAmerican surgeon who performed the first successful open heart surgery, dies at 77 (b. 1916)
- Abioseh NicolSierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924)
- Kathryn Crosby (née Grandstaff)American actress (as Kathryn Grant - Operation Mad Ball; The 7th Voyage of Sinbad; The Big Circus), registered nurse, and TV personality, dies at 90