Editing 1985 in science (section)

==Physiology and medicine==
* February 19 – [[Artificial heart]] patient [[William J. Schroeder]] becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
* March 4 – The United States [[Food and Drug Administration]] approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since this date for testing all U.S. [[blood donations]].
* March&ndash;May – [[Joshua Silver]] develops an adjustable [[corrective lens]].
* September 12 – German surgeon [[Erich Mühe]] performs the first [[laparoscopic]] [[cholecystectomy]].
* October 17 – The British [[House of Lords]] decides the legal case of ''Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority''<ref>[http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1985/7.html [1985<nowiki>]</nowiki> 3 All ER 402] (HL).</ref> which sets the significant precedent of [[Gillick competence]], i.e. that a child of 16 or under may be competent to consent to [[contraception]] or &ndash; by extension &ndash; other medical treatment without requiring parental permission or knowledge.
* Publication of a classified bibliography of 3500 reports on [[controlled trials]] in [[perinatal]] medicine published since 1940.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Cochrane Library|url=http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT|publisher=The [[Cochrane Library]]|accessdate=2011-01-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105124021/http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#ABOUT|archivedate=2011-01-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[DNA]] is first used in a criminal case.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gaines|first=Larry|author2=Miller, LeRoy|title=Criminal Justice In Action: The Core|year=2006|publisher=[[Cengage|Thomson/Wadsworth]]|isbn=978-0-495-00305-2}}</ref>
* New York-based [[neurologist]] [[Oliver Sacks]] publishes ''[[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat]] and Other Clinical Tales''.