Medicine
- March 20 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
- May – The name chronic fatigue syndrome first appears in the medical literature.
- May 11 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place.
- August 31 – The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin.
- December 29 – Prozac makes its debut in the U.S.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.