Medscape at 30: Three Decades of Big Events in Medicine

Medscape turns 30 in 2025. To mark this milestone, the Medscape 2050 project looks at what the field of medicine may look like 25 years from now. But the future is also shaped by the past. Below we look at the previous 30 years through the lens of Medscape News’ coverage of the headlines and events that helped define medicine since 1995.

May 22, 1995: Medscape Launches

Remember what the early days of the internet were like? That’s Medscape, launched out of a tiny office in Manhattan on May 22, 1995, by a scrappy group of people who had a great idea for a website to serve a physician readership. Here’s what those early days were like .

1996: Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) Revolutionizes HIV/AIDS Treatment

John G. Bartlett, MD, offers a thorough breakdown of HAART’s evol