Yale has a history of contributions to the field of medicine that have had a major impact on the health of people around the world. Some of these are:
| 1896 | Arthur Wright produces first X-ray | ||||||
| 1942 | Introduction of life-saving penicillin to the United States | ||||||
| 1942 | First use of chemotherapy as a cancer treatment in the U.S. | ||||||
| 1946 | First U.S. hospital to allow healthy newborns to say in rooms with mother. | ||||||
| 1947 | Yale-New Haven Hospital opens the first rheumatic fever-cardiac clinic, one of the nation's first regional heart centers | ||||||
| 1949 | Developed first artificial heart pump in the U.S. | ||||||
| 1949 | First U.S. hospital to introduce natural childbirth as a general service | ||||||
| 1957 | First hospital to use fetal heart monitoring | ||||||
| 1958 | Discovery of melatonin | ||||||
| 1959 | First antiviral drug developed | ||||||
| 1960 | World's first intensive care unit for newborns | ||||||
| 1966 | Phrenic nerve pacemaker allows quadriplegics to breathe without a respirator | ||||||
| 1966 | "Morning-After" birth control pill developed | ||||||
| 1972 | First hospital-based newborn screening program for sickle cell anemia in the U.S. | ||||||
| 1975 | Lyme disease identified and named | ||||||
| 1978 | FDA approved timolol to treat glaucoma, the first effective therapy for the disease since the early 1900s | ||||||
| 1979 | First insulin pump for diabetes | ||||||
| 1980 | The first genetically modified mouse (these are now used in the early stages of research to develop treatment for diseases | ||||||
| 1985 | First fetal cardiovascular center in the U.S. | ||||||
| 1994 | FDA approved Zerit, a drug to treat HIV and part of the three-drug “cocktail” that extended the lives of many tens of thousands of people with HIV/AIDS worldwide | ||||||
| 1997 | The discovery of a mechanism of protein folding, a step toward understanding neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease | ||||||
| 1997 | First documented heart transplants of adult identical twins, one in 1992, second in 1997 | ||||||
| 2010 | First to use high-throughput DNA sequencing to diagnose a disease | ||||||
| 2014 | Genomic analysis leads to the discovery, diagnosis, and treatment of a rare disease |
1958: Discovery Of Melatonin
History Of Melatonin
Melatonin
1975 - Cicardian Rhythm
1980: Light suppresses Melatonin release
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