No. When did hepatitis B vaccine become available? The first hepatitis B vaccine became commercially avail-able in the United States in 1982. In 1986, a hepatitis B vaccine produced by recombinant DNA technology was licensed, and a second recombinant-type hepatitis B vaccine was licensed in 1989. The two recombinant DNA vaccines (Recombivax HB and Engerix-B) are the only hepatitis B vaccine preparations currently used in the United States.
Myra Adele Logan. Physician and Surgeon. Myra Adele Logan was born in 1908 in Tuskegee, Alabama and was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She is also noted for being a selfless, humanitarian doctor who practiced medicine to serve the community.
* Ed and Mary Amos leave their home in the D.C. area to visit Mary's parents in North Carolina. Mary is pregnant, and gets sick during the visit. A doctor advises her to stay until the baby is born. August 22, 1963. * Myra Ellen Amos is born at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina. She is the youngest of three children. Her brother, Mike, is 10 years older, and her sister, Marie, is 8 years older.