This Month in Medical History
October 07, 2011
This Month in Medical History looks at the father of modern surgery.
October 07, 2011
This Month in Medical History looks at the father of modern surgery.
June 20, 2011
For his time, Dr. Arnall Patz was considered a radical but his experiments preserved the sight of numerous infants.
April 04, 2011
This Month in Medical History looks at Nixon's tobacco-fighting legacy.
March 25, 2011
The AIDS test became commercially available in March of 1985.
February 10, 2011
Nearly a century ago, dog teams and their mushers undertook a race for the cure.
January 10, 2011
This month in 1934, Marie Curie's daughter discovered artificial radioactivity.
December 24, 2010
This month we celebrate the birthday of Robert Koch. Koch was born in Clausthal, Germany on December 11, 1843. Koch's Postulates, criteria used to establish a causal relationship linking a suspect microbe to a disease are still used today.
December 23, 2010
The chronicles of the first successful heart surgery.
November 30, 2010
November 15, 2010
A doctor tackles "blue baby" syndrome in this edition of This Month in Medical History.
October 08, 2010
This Month in Medical History, a Scottish scientist discovers a bloodsucker's role in disease.
August 05, 2010
"The Elephant Man" remains an enigma.
July 08, 2010
For anyone who has ever had a meal so delicious that it's been dreamed about ever since with the realization it could never be created exactly again, there's hope.
June 03, 2010
A regular feature from the pages of DOTmed Business News.
May 24, 2010
In what must go down as one of the finest examples of humanity, the world carried out a global campaign to finish a war that had claimed more lives than all manmade wars combined.
April 05, 2010
Before Louis Pasteur attached his name to milk cartons across the world, he was a chemist with an impeccable ability to conduct research.
March 03, 2010
A children's song from years past captured the fears of the Spanish Flu.
February 11, 2010
This month, we celebrate the birthday of a man who made it possible to hear people more clearly more than fifty years before the telephone was invented.
January 11, 2010
Although Susan B. Anthony is well-known regarding women's rights (possibly due in part to being immortalized through a U.S. dollar coin bearing her likeness) she was far from the first to advance the rights of women.
December 08, 2009
Poets have tapped into its symbolism for hundreds of years, it has lent its services to a number of words including breaking, rending, ache, felt, warming and more.
November 04, 2009
The operation was a success and made Dinoire the first person to ever receive a partial face transplant.
October 09, 2009
Accidental discovery of a procedure to visualize heart disease.
September 13, 2009
In September of 1928, in Fleming's untidy lab, a petri dish containing staphylococcus bacteria also became host to some opportunistic mold.
August 12, 2009
Lister's contribution to medicine was incalculable.
July 13, 2009
DOTmed wishes Louise Joy Brown a Happy Birthday this month.
June 10, 2009
Dr. Jesse H. Meredith, a pioneering limb re-implantation surgeon.
May 09, 2009
In May 1960, the FDA gave approval to a drug that has perhaps done more to reshape society than any other.
April 15, 2009
With the possible exception of AIDS, there hasn't been a disease in American history causing more public concern than the polio epidemics that would spring-up periodically across the country barely more than five decades ago.
March 18, 2009
Did you know that telemedicine dates back to 1905? Read DOTmed's monthly briefing.
February 16, 2009
Their first announcement to the world took place in an arguably un-scholarly location. Crick walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, with the announcement, "we had found the secret of life."
January 29, 2009
Less than 100 years ago, being afflicted with Type 1 diabetes, which typically affects individuals under the age of 20, was a death sentence.
December 29, 2008
From appendix to teeth, if you've ever had to have one removed by a professional - then you should go to great pains to thank Horace Wells (1815-1848), a Hartford, Connecticut dentist.
November 06, 2008
On November 8, 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923) made a discovery that would revolutionize the medical industry and go on to benefit millions.
