Pharmacy Time Capsules

2008 (4th Quarter)

1983—Twenty-five years ago:

• Orphan Drug Act supporting research and approval of medicines for rare conditions was passed

• D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was founded in Los Angeles.

• 94 NDAs were approved; 14 were new chemical entities.

1958—Fifty years ago

• 280 NDAs were approved, 20 were new chemical entities.

• First list of substances generally recognized as safe (GRAS) was published in the Federal Register.

                                                                                                                           
1933—Seventy-five year ago

• The 1933 Lilly Digest reported that 27% of the reporting 402 pharmacies were operating at a loss; 41% reported net profit of 5% or more.

• Prohibition was repealed under the Blaine Act

1908—One hundred years ago

• Paul Ehrlich, discoverer of Salvarsan (606 or arsphenamine) the first modern chemotherapeutic agent, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

• Boys Scouts formed. First group in the United States was formed in 1910.

By: Dennis B. Worthen  Lloyd Scholar, Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, OH

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