Question

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Write an essay at least 5 paragrphs. Explain the main criteria for determining which medical breakthroughs were in the top 10 of all time. Do you feel that these criteria are sufficient in making this determination and do you feel that there were any great discoveries left off the list?

Answer 1

Medical breakthrough

Anaesthesia

19 the century saw the discovery of anaesthesia which numbs all sensation in the patient. An early anaesthesia was coCaine firsthe isolated deals by Karl killer.

It was an effective numbing agents but as we now know it is also addictive and open to abuse.also chloroform used to number pain but this too had potential lethal side effects. Today anesthetic are both effective and safe.

Birth control

Birth control movement started a few years later when a group of radical led by Emma goodman start to educating their fellow women about contraceptive to try and control of unwanted pregnancy. Their campaigns was eventually successfully and planned parenthood federation of America was formed. Birth control remains unpopular with some religious groups but it had a profound and undeniable social effect.

Maternal mortality rate

Another controversial one now with the combined vaccine for measles, mumps,rubella. He did this effectively by publisher a paper claiming that there was a link between the MMD.P vaccine and autism.

MMR rates are now increasing again thanks to emergency vaccination programme and it can be safely said that the MMR is a significant medical breakthrough.

X-ray

Anna medical procedure that is now so common that we take it for granted the XRAY was discovered by accident.

His cathode ray tube could produce some unusual images. A week later he x rayed his wife hand and the resulting image close to our modern x ray

Insulin

Another breakthrough that is used onot a daily basis by diabetes insulin is the life saving hormones that keeps our blood sugar in check. Diabetes are either missing this hormones entirely or produce it but not in a way theor bodies can use.

Type 1 diabetes used to be a terminal diseases. Apart from diet management there was nothing that could be done to combat the diseases. Nowadays it still isn't curable but is manageable thanks to insulin.

Vitaminsupplements

Understanding of nutrients and helped to prevent many illness and conditions that results from deficiency

HIV

This discovery of course led to a greater of unprotected sex as well as to the various treatment that exists today to make the condition manageable.

The circulatory system

This led to a far better understanding of the human body in general and to many of the treatments and techniques we now for granted.

Penicillin

The big game changer for modern medicines. The development of all the antibiotics that we use today to combat bacteria

DNA

A much better understanding of a range of diseases and illness but is likely to lead to many more discover in the further asupport a general therapy become more widely used.

German theory

Hygiene practice we now take for granted

Vaccination

Managed to stop the spread of many epidemic and even completely eradicate

Great discover

Tricorders

Thursday cell immunotherapy

Augmented reality

Synthetic blood

Mobile stroke treatment units

Interoperability

Ultrasound therapy for Alzheimer disease

Drones to distribute medicine to isolated areas

Curing disease through gene editing

Anna artificial pancreases for Diabetic

Reduction of LOL cholesterol

Enhanced post surgery recovery

More targeted precise breast cancer therapies

Improved treatment for sleep apnoea

Next generation vaccine

The first human head transplant