NHF becomes a member of the National Health Council.

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law legislation that establishes the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Dr. Judith Graham Pool publishes a paper that notes her discovery that slowly-thawed frozen plasma yields deposits high in Factor VIII. These deposits, called cryoprecipitates - or cryo -, are found to have much greater clotting power than plasma and are given to hemophiliacs to stop bleeding episodes.

The International Committee on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ICHT) forms in 1964. This body, in turn, promotes the formation of the current International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH).

John Walsh replaces Coring Jr. as the NHF executive director.

The U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act.

NHF hosts another symposium; MASAC again presents its findings and publishes a paper.

An article in the scientific journal Nature details the complex clotting process, calling it the coagulation cascade.

NHF grows to 23 chapters nationwide.

The Indiana Chapter forms.