medical breakthroughs since WWII in 1945

Question 1

in what year was there free vaccines for TB

Answer 1

1948

Question 2

when was the first open heart surgery and who did it

Answer 2

1950, William Bigelow

Question 3

when was the first miniature hearing aid and first kidney transplant

Answer 3

1952

Question 4

when was the discovery of stem cells

Answer 4

1953

Question 5

when was the discovery of DNA

Answer 5

1953

Question 6

in what year was there free vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus

Answer 6

1954

Question 7

when was there free vaccines of polio in the UK

Answer 7

1955

Question 8

when the first pacemaker fitted

Answer 8

1958

Question 9

when was there free vaccines for measles in the UK

Answer 9

1964

Question 10

when was the FIRST EVER heart transplant UK

Answer 10

1967

Question 11

when was the first heart transplant in the UK

Answer 11

1968

Question 12

when and who developed hip transplants

Answer 12

Sir John Charnley in 1972

Question 13

when was the invention of the cat scanner

Answer 13

1973

Question 14

when were endoscopes invented

Answer 14

1975

Question 15

when was the first test tube baby born using IVF

Answer 15

1978

Question 16

when was the first heart, lung and liver transplant

Answer 16

1986

Question 17

when were MRI scans used to detect brain tumours

Answer 17

1987

Question 18

when did the human genome project help to understand DNA

Answer 18

1990

Question 19

what and when was the first cloned animal, and what was it called

Answer 19

Dolly the sheep in 1996

Question 20

when was the first HPV vaccine aproved

Answer 20

2006

Question 21

when was the first partial face transplant

Answer 21

2006

Question 22

when was there a breakthrough in visual prosthetics

Answer 22

2007

Question 23

when was the first full face transplant

Answer 23

2008

Question 24

when was the first human livers grown from stem cells

Answer 24

2011