Medical History Timeline 1971 - 1980 |
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| 1971 | Discovery of Viroids | 
Viroids and Satellites: Molecular Parasites at the Frontier of Life |
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| 1973 | Stanely Cohen and Herbert Boyer, invented the technique of DNA cloning | CAT scan invented by Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack | 
DNA Cloning; A Practical Approach Volume 2: Expression Systems |
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| 1974 | First vaccine for chicken pox. Giorgio Fischer a gynecologist invented liposuction Liposuction (or lipoplasty) is a technique in which excess fatty tissue is suctioned from beneath the skin. Prior to surgery, doctors flush the targeted area or areas with a solution composed of lidocaine (a local anesthetic similar in its numbing effects to novocaine), saline, and epinephrine (a drug that constricts blood vessels and thus reduces bleeding during surgery). |
Death of Virginia Apgar Virginia Apgar was one of Columbia University's first female M.D.s. She graduated in 1933. She was one of the first American women to specialize in surgery. She became Columbia's first-ever full Professor of Anesthesiology in 1949. Apgar specialized in anesthesia and childbirth. She invented the Newborn Scoring System, also called the Apgar Score, in 1949 that assessed the health of newborns. |
Raymond Damadian, American physician, is granted a patent on his invention of the magnetic resonance imaging device. |
Textbook of Liposuction |
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| 1975 | Monoclonal antibodies developed | 
Monoclonal Antibodies: A Manual of Techniques |
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| 1976 | Death of Wilder Penfield (pioneer in neurology ) | 
Neurology: Neurology |
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| 1977 | First vaccine for pneumonia. | 
Pneumonia: Pocketbook |
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| 1978 | First vaccine for meningitis. | Death of Charles Best (assisted in the discovery of insulin ) | First test-tube baby is born in the U.K.
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Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution |
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| 1979 | ultrasound scan invented by Ian Donald | |||||||||
| 1980 | Death of Hans Asperger (Austrian paediatrician after whom Asperger's Syndrome is named ) | W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated. | 
The Life and Death of Smallpox |
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