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05 May
1955: Dr Salk promotes polio vaccine in UK
07 May
1956: Minister rejects anti-smoking lobby
27 Jun
1957: Smoking 'causes lung cancer'
01 Oct
1957: British public gets 'Asian Flu' vaccine
29 Jan
1959: Fog brings transport chaos
04 Dec
1961: Birth control pill 'available to all'
26 Aug
1962: Abortion mother returns home
06 Dec
1962: Choking fog spreads across Britain
04 May
1966: Doctors and dentists get huge pay rise
26 Feb
1968: Hospital blaze kills 21 patients
19 Feb
1968: Damages for thalidomide children
03 May
1968: Surgeons conduct UK's first heart transplant
02 Oct
1968: Birth of sextuplets stuns Britain
06 Mar
1970: Rabies ban on British pet imports
13 Dec
1972: New offer for Thalidomide victims
30 Jul
1973: Final deal for thalidomide victims
02 Oct
1974: Cannabis 'causes brain damage'
07 Oct
1977: Invasion of Swedish identical twins
25 Jul
1978: First 'test tube baby' born
26 Jul
1983: Mother loses contraception test case
06 Dec
1983: Transplant makes British medical history
23 Apr
1984: Scientist finds Aids virus
23 Jul
1984: Sellafield 'not linked' to cancer cluster
07 Sep
1984: Epidemic 'spreads to second hospital'
13 Aug
1985: Heart-lung transplant makes history
11 Dec
1986: BBC Aids slogan angers church
03 Feb
1988: Nurses protest for better pay
03 Dec
1988: Egg industry fury over salmonella claim
25 Jul
1989: Diana opens Landmark Aids Centre
01 Aug
1989: Britain's oldest person turns 112
06 Jan
1992: US halts breast implants
26 Aug
1994: Man gets 'bionic' heart
13 Jun
1996: Guernsey votes to legalise abortion
06 Feb
1997: Widow allowed dead husband's baby
19 May
1997: Labour to stub out tobacco sponsorship
29 Sep
1997: Scientists confirm brain diseases link
30 Nov
1999: T-bone steaks on sale by Christmas
06 Jan
2000: Flu outbreak stretches NHS resources
10 Apr
2000: Damages for sacked HIV manager
27 May
2000: GM blunder leaves farmers in uproar
11 Jul
2000: Britain pioneers HIV vaccine
27 Jul
2000: Labour publishes plans to revolutionise NHS
22 Jan
2001: MMR triple vaccine declared safe
13 Feb
2001: Landmark Aids case begins in Scotland
19 Apr
2001: Drugs firms withdraw from Aids case
14 May
2001: Scientists warn of more CJD cases
15 May
2001: UK supermarkets slash price of drugs
13 Jul
2001: Family demand inquiry into police shooting
07 Aug
2001: NHS buys private hospital
21 Oct
2001: Anthrax claims third victim in US
22 Mar
2002: Woman granted 'right to die'
08 Jul
2003: Conjoined twins die in separation op
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