Medicine
- November - Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic begins in Guangdong Province of China.
- December 19 - Clozapine is the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for reducing the risk of suicidal behaviour.
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“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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