CIVICS

By Lukassougaris

  • United Network for Organ Sharing

    Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act to coordinate the allocation of organs in 1984. UNOS was incorporated in March of that year and received its initial contract in 1986.

  • Coronary stents

    Drs. Ulrich Sigwart and Jacques Puel implanted the first coronary stent in a human at a hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Genetically targeted cancer therapies

    The FDA approves the first targeted cancer therapy, imatinib or Gleevec, in 2001 for chronic myelogenous leukemia.

  • The aca gets put into effect

    The law provides consumers with subsidies (“premium tax credits”) that lower costs for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level.