medical breakthroughs since WWII in 1945 Flashcards
in what year was there free vaccines for TB
1948
when was the first open heart surgery and who did it
1950, William Bigelow
when was the first miniature hearing aid and first kidney transplant
1952
when was the discovery of stem cells
1953
when was the discovery of DNA
1953
in what year was there free vaccines for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus
1954
when was there free vaccines of polio in the UK
1955
when the first pacemaker fitted
1958
when was there free vaccines for measles in the UK
1964
when was the FIRST EVER heart transplant UK
1967
when was the first heart transplant in the UK
1968
when and who developed hip transplants
Sir John Charnley in 1972
when was the invention of the cat scanner
1973
when were endoscopes invented
1975
when was the first test tube baby born using IVF
1978
when was the first heart, lung and liver transplant
1986
when were MRI scans used to detect brain tumours
1987
when did the human genome project help to understand DNA
1990
what and when was the first cloned animal, and what was it called
Dolly the sheep in 1996
when was the first HPV vaccine aproved
2006
when was the first partial face transplant
2006
when was there a breakthrough in visual prosthetics
2007
when was the first full face transplant
2008
when was the first human livers grown from stem cells
2011
