Editing 1960 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* April 15 – William C. Chardack implants the first fixed-rate cardiac [[Artificial pacemaker|pacemaker]] with [[mercury battery]], designed by [[Wilson Greatbatch]].<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=Adam|title=Making Hearts Beat|work=InnovativeLives|url=http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/lecture09.html|publisher=Lemelson Center|date=1999-02-05|access-date=2011-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421224221/http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/lecture09.html|archive-date=2008-04-21}}</ref>
* May 2 – The first [[coronary artery bypass surgery]] is performed by a team led by Dr. [[Robert Goetz]] and thoracic surgeon Dr. Michael Rohman with the assistance of Drs. Jordan Haller and Ronald Dee at the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]-[[Jacobi Medical Center|Bronx Municipal Hospital Center]] in the [[United States]] using internal mammary artery as the donor vessel; the patient survives for 9 months.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dee|first=R.|title=Who Assisted Whom?|journal=Texas Heart Institute Journal|volume=30|issue=1|page=90|year=2003|pmid=12638685|pmc=152850}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Haller|first1=J. D.|last2=Olearchyk|first2=A. S.|title=Cardiology's 10 Greatest Discoveries|journal=Texas Heart Institute Journal|volume=29|issue=4|pages=342–4|year=2002|pmid=12484626|pmc=140304}}</ref>
* May 9 – The U.S. [[Food and Drug Administration]] announces that it will approve [[birth control]] as an additional [[indication (medicine)|indication]] for [[G.D. Searle, LLC|G. D. Searle]]'s [[Enovid]], making it the world's first approved [[combined oral contraceptive pill]].
* June 6 – The [[American Heart Association]] announces a strong statistical association between heavy cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease.<ref>{{cite news|title=Smoking is Linked to Heart Disease|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 7, 1960|page=36}}</ref>
* c. October – First trials of [[measles vaccine]] carried out in Nigeria and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bakalar|first=N.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/health/05first.html|title=First mention: Measles vaccine, 1960|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2010-10-05|page=D2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Beautysays|date=2009-09-27|title=David Morley - a career of service that started in Nigeria|url=https://nigeriahealthwatch.com/david-morley-a-career-of-service-that-started-in-nigeria/|access-date=2022-04-29|website=Nigeria Health Watch}}</ref>
* October 2 – [[Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus]] (MRSA), the antibiotic-resistant form of bacteria, is first isolated by Dr. M. Patricia Jevons in samples from a hospital in southeastern England.<ref>{{cite journal|pmc=1952888|pages=124–125|issue=5219|journal=[[British Medical Journal]]|title="Celbenin"-resistant Staphylococci|date=1961-01-14|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.5219.124-a|last=Jevons|first=M. P.|volume=1 }}</ref>
* October 30 – The first [[kidney transplantation]] in the [[United Kingdom]] is performed by a team led by [[English people|English]] surgeon [[Michael Woodruff]] at the [[Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh]] between [[identical twin]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://renux.dmed.ed.ac.uk/EdREN/Unitbits/historyweb/transplant.html#anchor11506296 |title=History of Kidney Transplantation in Edinburgh |work=EdREN |publisher=Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh |year=2001 |access-date=2013-12-02  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206072831/http://renux.dmed.ed.ac.uk/edren/Unitbits/historyweb/transplant.html |archive-date=2009-02-06 }}</ref>