Medicine
- March – The Cochrane Library launched.
- New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease first identified in humans, in the United Kingdom.
- Sildenafil (Viagra), a treatment for erectile dysfunction, is patented by Pfizer.
Read more about this topic: 1996 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
Rhyme.
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)