Tag: medicine

ON THIS DAY: First infant to receive incubator care (1888)

On this Day September 7, 2026 at 15:17

On 7 September 1888, a tiny baby named Edith Eleanor McLean became the first infant recorded to receive incubator care in the United States....

ON THIS DAY: Pioneer of HIV research, Robert Gallo is born (1937)

On this Day March 23, 2026 at 15:43

On this day in 1937, Robert Charles Gallo was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, a scientist whose work would place him at the centre of...

Scientists win Nobel Prize for immune system discovery

Health October 7, 2025 at 10:41

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering why the immune system destroys infections but not...

ON THIS DAY: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin (1928)

On this Day September 15, 2025 at 16:41

On 15 September 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming made one of the most important breakthroughs in medical history: the discovery of penicillin, the world’s...