This is a list of events associated with medicine in the 1980s.

1980

October

10: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset and George D. Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions".

1981

October

09: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Roger W. Sperry "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres" as well as David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system".

1982

October

11: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".

1983

1983 West Bank fainting epidemic

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Barbara McClintock "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements".

1984

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Niels K. Jerne, Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.

February

01: Australia introduces the Medicare program, a universal healthcare program.

1985

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism".

1986

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini "for their discoveries of growth factors".

1987

1987 Carroll County cryptosporidiosis outbreak The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Susumu Tonegawa "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity".

1988

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment".

1989

1989–1990 flu epidemic in the United Kingdom The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes".

See also

1980s in science and technology 1970s in medicine 1990s in medicine Timeline of medicine and medical technology

References