What is the biggest medical breakthrough?

In this blog, we take a look at what we think have been the five biggest medical breakthroughs in history.

• Germ Theory Inventor.
• First Organ Transplant.
• Antibiotic Invention History.
• First MRI Machine Invented.
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

What is the most significant discovery in biomedical sciences from the last 50 years?

1. Antibiotics. While the initial discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming and further antibiotic discoveries that were made in the 1940s, all medical application and further development of antibiotics reached the golden spot in 1960’s.

What are the most significant medical developments of the past 50 years?

The Most Life-Changing Health Advances of the Past 50 Years

• 1960s: Measles Vaccine.
• 1970s: First “Test Tube” Baby.
• 1980s: First Artificial Heart.
• 1990s: Medical Lasers.
• 2000s: Genome Mapping.
• 2010s: Restoring Sight to the Blind.

What discovery has saved the most lives?

The breakthroughs that are credited with saving the most lives? Toilets, synthetic fertilizers, blood transfusions, the green revolution (also known as the “Third Agricultural Revolution”), and vaccines are each credited with saving 1 billion lives.

What are some medical milestones?

Medical Milestones in the Past 500 Years

• Elucidation of Human Anatomy and Physiology.
• Discovery of Cells and Their Substructures.
• Elucidation of the Chemistry of Life.
• Application of Statistics to Medicine.
• Development of Anesthesia.
• Discovery of the Relation of Microbes to Disease.
• Elucidation of Inheritance and Genetics.

What has been the most important medical discovery in the last 100 years?

Top Medical Technology Advances From the Last 100 Years

• 1924: The Electroencephalogram.
• 1928: The Iron Lung.
• 1931: Minimally Invasive Surgery.
• 1936: The Pacemaker.
• 1943: Dialysis.
• 1944: The Disposable Catheter.
• 1947: Cardiac Defibrillation.
• 1952: Magnetic Resonance.

What has been the single most important medical advancement in the last 100 years?

What are the top five medical interventions?

So without further delay, and with no pre-authorization required, here are my top 10 medical advances.

1. Antibiotics.
2. Anesthetics and pain medication.
3. Insulin and other hypoglycemic agents.
4. Birth control.
5. Antihypertensives.
6. Blood thinners.
7. Cholesterol lowering drugs.
8. Oxygen.