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1943 Microbiologist Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin, later used in the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases. 1945 First vaccine for influenza. 1952 Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker to control irregular heartbeat. 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick at Cambridge University describe the structure of the DNA molecule. Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London are also studying DNA. (Wilkins in fact shares Franklin's data with Watson and Crick without her knowledge.) Watson, Crick, and Wilkins share the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962 (Franklin had died and the Nobel Prize only goes to living recipients). 1954 Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant between identical twins. 1955 Jonas Salk develops the first polio. 1957 Dr. Willem Kolff and Dr. Tetsuzo Akutzu implant the first artificial heart in a dog. The animal survives 90 minutes. 1962 First oral polio vaccine (as an alternative to the injected vaccine). 1964 Firstvaccine for measles. 1967 First vaccine for mumps. 1967 South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant. 1970 First vaccine for rubella. 1974 First vaccine for chicken pox. 1977 First vaccine for pneumonia. 1978 First test-tube baby is born in the U.K. 1978 First vaccine for meningitis.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoMedicine has become more expensive. TV dramas and technological advances have made more medical information available to the public. More males are becoming nurses and more females are becoming doctors. And HIV is still a pain in the rear to get good treatment for. Oh, psychological conditions are also incorporated more into general practice as the field of psychology has really advanced.
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∙ 14y agoEverything is much more sanitized and procedural.
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∙ 12y agoBack then there was no proper Medicine so people would get sick and pretty much just die.
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What major events changed Canadian history in the last 15 years?
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