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Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases ever known to mankind, with an estimated 300-500 million people losing their lives to the disease throughout the 19th century. Less than two centuries after the vaccine was introduced, in 1978, a woman named Janet Parker died from smallpox in Birmingham after the virus escaped from a lab.
Jun 21, 2021 · The first medical imaging machines were X-rays. The X-ray, a form of electromagnetic radiation, was ‘accidentally’ invented in 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rӧntgen when experimenting with electrical currents through glass cathode-ray tubes. The discovery transformed medicine overnight and by the following year, Glasgow hospital ...
Jul 17, 2020 · From 1920-1970, American physicians saw the advent of private insurance, as well as Medicare and Medicaid. Throw major pharmaceutical breakthroughs into the mix, such as antibiotics, antihypertensives, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and steroids, and you have radical transformation. “The whole pharmaceutical revolution really happens after ...
Dec 14, 2023 · Here are some of the biggest medical advances in 2023. New treatments include the first CRISPR gene-editing therapy, an Alzheimer’s drug and RSV vaccines. In March, the U.S. Food and Drug ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Insect-borne disease transmission; scurvy; heat-killed vaccines Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, discovers the cause of scurvy and develops the ...
