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:
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“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)