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Title: Top ten medical breakthroughs the past four decades?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 07/04/2021 03:19:52

1. Hemorrhoidal cream.
2. The pill.
3. Allergy shots.
4. Paxil.
5. Daunorubicin.
6. Sildenafil.
7. MRI.
8. Nembutal
9. Forget-me-not (a pill used after consensual sex where one party induces the other party with a little amnesia so they don't remember how bad the sex was.
10. What ever pill(s) that are responsible putting an almost complete stop to the AIDS epidemic in the developed word..

Title: Re: Top ten medical breakthroughs the past four decades?
Post by: alancalverd on 07/04/2021 10:10:01

1. I'll accept the word of an expert
2. Responsible for ludicrous house prices and the destruction of the UK economy
3, 4, 5, 6 see 1
7. Great for diagnosing things we can't treat
8, 9 see1
10 Education, education, education. And condoms.
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Title: Re: Top ten medical breakthroughs the past four decades?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 08/04/2021 01:19:36

4 decades? That would mean 1980.  I think you are showing your age.

Title: Re: Top ten medical breakthroughs the past four decades?
Post by: alancalverd on 08/04/2021 12:20:14

6,7, and 10 are certainly recent additions to the armamentarium.

Title: Re: Top ten medical breakthroughs the past four decades?
Post by: Bored chemist on 08/04/2021 13:19:41

"Since its development in the 1970s and 1980s, MRI has proven to be a versatile imaging technique. "
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging

Title: Re: Top ten medical breakthroughs the past four decades?
Post by: alancalverd on 10/04/2021 00:06:58

The first commercial MRI machine was manufactured in 1980, so I guess it missed the "four decades" mark by a few months, but the first installation of a routine clinical machine (as distinct from laboratory lashups) in the UK was in 1984, which made the cut in my book.