What is a HUGE medical advancement in the last 100 years??

Answer 1

blood typing, stem cell research, transplant surgery, antiseptic techniques

Answer 2

Antibiotics have prevented more deaths than heart surgery or ANY other advance in medicine in the past 100 years. Look at the top four causes of death in 1906. #1 was Tuberculosis - now treatable with antibiotics. #2 was pneumonia and Influenza - treated with either antibiotics or vaccination. Heart disease was #3 back then and cancer was #8 - Why? Because the average life expectancy was 47 years in 1906 and many people did not get old enough to get cancer or heart disease. #4 on the 1906 list was infectious diarrhea - diseases such as typhoid and cholera which can now be cured with antibiotics. Complication of childbirth was number 10 on the list as late as 1918, and many of these deaths
were caused by treatable infections. (Remember that death in childbirth only affects half the population - the women.)
The answer must be antibiotics if # of lives saved is the criteria to judge an advance in medicine.

Answer 3

Antibiotics

Answer 4

Standardization of medical education
The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Antibiotics
The use of aspirin in the limitation of cardiovascular disease
Disposable needles, catheters, and instruments
Immunizations against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, hepatitis B, Hemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcus, and influenza
The widespread distribution of WHO rehydration salt packets for the treatment of diarrheal diseases in third-world countries
Laboratory medicine in general

Answer 5

desktops. they permit us to do spectacular issues. something greater specifically scientific? i'm questioning antibiotics. My pal the Paramedic pupil says emergency drugs - the advances there have stored uncounted lives. Why is DNA so necessary? through fact DNA are the guidelines of life - as quickly as we are able to understand and manage DNA, we are able to administration all factors of life. era. Orion

Answer 6

Antibiotics.

Answer 7

1)Radiological imaging-- human body for all practical purposes can be "radiologially dissected" and disease diagnosed.
2) Immuno assay -- Any substance in blood or body fluids can be detected and titrated.
3)Recombinant drug manufacture -- Any natural material like hormone can be reproduced in the laboratory And of course
4)Stem cell therapy -Promises to cure all diseases.

Answer 8

knowing what aids is and how it's spread.
understanding mental illnesses for what they are.
Drugs, all of them, HUGE.

a lot's happened, but those whould be my top pick. fix the spread, fix the stigma, and fix the common little problems.

Answer 9

Transplant surgery

Answer 10

Given the leading cause of death: Heart Disease.

I'd say open heart surgery.