Categories - Medicine, Health
- Plyler v. Doe
- A. H. Robins Must Compensate Women Injured by the Dalkon Shield
- Abel Develops the First Artificial Kidney
- Acupuncture Develops in China
- Aerosol Containers Are Introduced
- African Lake Emits Toxic Gas
- AIDS Scientists and Activists Meet in Amsterdam
- al-Razi
- Albert Calmette
- Albert Schweitzer
- Alcmaeon
- Alcoholism
- Alfred Adler
- Alhazen
- Amnesty International Starts Program to Prevent Torture
- Andreas Vesalius
- António Egas Moniz
- An APA Report Discusses the Homeless Mentally Ill
- Aretaeus of Cappadocia
- Aristotle
- Aristotle Isolates Science as a Discipline
- Arnold of Villanova
- Artificial Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies to Prevent Dental Decay Is Introduced
- The Artificial Sweetener Cyclamate Is Introduced
- Asclepiades of Bithynia
- Aserinsky Discovers Rapid Eye Movement (REM) in Sleep and Dreams
- Assisted-Suicide Specialist Kevorkian Is Found Guilty of Murder
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus
- Averroës
- Avicenna
- Avicenna Writes His Canon of Medicine
- Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
- Baron Florey
- Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
- The Baylor Plan Introduces Prepaid Hospital Care
- Behring Discovers the Diphtheria Antitoxin
- Bell Labs Introduces Electronically Amplified Hearing Aids
- Benjamin Rush
- Benjamin Spock
- Berger Develops the Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
- Bhopal Disaster Kills and Injures Thousands
- Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
- Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
- Bocage Devises Theory of Tomography
- Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger
- Britain Announces Mad Cow Disease Has Infected Humans
- Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
- Brown Orders Medfly Spraying in California