Categories - Medicine, Health
- The United States Bans PCBs
- The United States Joins the International Biological Program
- The United States Sprays Agent Orange in Vietnam
- United States to Retain Smallpox Virus Sample
- A Vaccine Is Developed for German Measles
- Waksman Discovers the Antibiotic Streptomycin
- Walter Reed
- Wilkins Discovers Reserpine, the First Tranquilizer
- Wilkins Introduces Reserpine for the Treatment of High Blood Pressure
- Willem Einthoven
- William Crawford Gorgas
- William Harvey
- William Thomas Green Morton
- Wolman Begins Investigating Water and Sewage Systems
- The World Health Organization Adopts a Code on Breast-Milk Substitutes
- World Health Organization Announces Eradication of Smallpox
- The World Health Organization Condemns Use of Infant Formula
- World Health Organization Sets a Goal of Health for All by the Year 2000
- World Health Organization (WHO) Proclaims Health as a Basic Right
- X Rays from a Synchrotron Are First Used in Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
- The Zero Population Growth Movement Spurs Environmental Consciousness
- Zinsser Develops an Immunization Against Typhus
- “Black Wednesday” Demonstrates Dangers of Smog
