Medical History Timeline 2001

Medical History Timeline 2001 - Present

Year	Medical Discovery / Inventions	medical articles / thesis	Famous Births/Deaths	Medical Equipments	Medical Events
2001	FDA licenses the first nucleic acid test (NAT) systems intended for screening of blood and plasma donors. (AIDS)		Death of Christiaan Barnard South African surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant in 1967. The recipient was 53-year-old dentist Louis Washkansky who lived for only 18 days after the operation until his body rejected the transplanted heart.			HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-Related Terminology: A Means of Organizing the Body of Knowledge
2002	SARS-The first case of an atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.		Death of Orvan Hess (Fetal heart monitor and first successful use of Penicillin )			SARS: (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
2003	Canadian researchers announce they have completed the first successful sequencing of the genome of the coronavirus believed to cause SARS.
2004	143 people in Britain have been infected with variant CJD, and 180,000 cattle have been diagnosed with BSE
2005
2006	First vaccine for human papillomavirus					Everything You Need to Know About Human Papillomavirus




Year	Medical Discovery / Inventions	medical articles / thesis	Famous Births/Deaths	Medical Equipments	Medical Events