Dr. Malcolm S. Artenstein of the Walter Reed Institute of Research developed a meningitis vaccine in 1969.

Harvard Medical School dean Dr. George Berry retired in 1965. He stressed the need for scientific research as a tool to understand better the patient as a person.

Fully implantable heart pacemakers with batteries were developed by Dr. William A. Chardack of the Buffalo, New York, Veterans' Hospital in 1961.

Dr. Thomas D. Cronin of Houston introduced the Silastic breast implant to America in 1963. It felt like normal breast tissue.

In 1961 Dr. John Enders and colleagues announced a live-virus measles vaccine.

In 1964 Dr. Vincent Freda and Dr. John Gorman at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York collaborated with Dr. William Pollack of the Ortho (Pharmaceutical Company) Research Foundation to produce Rh Immune Globulin, better known by the trade name, RhoGAM.

At the White House Conference on Children and Youth...