Healthcare is an area that has greatly been affected by the modern technology. It has changed the entire structure and the organization of the whole field of medicine. There has been a widespread adoption of modern technology and this has advanced the biomedical engineering in human health. Through this, the lives of those with chronic diseases have been greatly increased. In this paper advances in the medical field are going to be discussed. This paper will look into medicine advancements as enunciated by Dan Childs and Susan Kansagra, their article 10 Health Advances That Changed the World and give a brief correlation between these advancements and the human race.
First, there has been the development of vaccines. In the early ages, communicable diseases such as smallpox and polio have had a great impact on human in the history and it is through the development of vaccines that more lives have been saved.
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There has been development of surgical Anesthetic and Antiseptics. It is through the development of Anesthetic that surgical pain and agony have been completely reduced and the development of Antiseptics giving a sterile surgical environment to prevent patients from dying.
Development of Antibiotics and Antivirals. There has been development of a new class of antibiotics knows as teixobactin that is capable of killing serious such as tuberculosis without encountering resistance (Childs and Kansagra 2).
Development of cancer therapies. There has been a new approach to analyzing cancer codes which allows the doctors to understand how different chemotherapies will react to the mutated genes. In addition to that, there has been an advance in cancer immunotherapy which treats cancer by boosting the body immunity rather than removing of the mutated cells.
Development of gene therapy. This is the technology that treats bold cancers such as leukemia. Recently, it has also in shown that gene therapy can be used in reversing breast cancer. It has also shown that in future gene therapy could be used to eliminate surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy
Improvement of heart surgery and cardiac care. Heart disease has been the most killing disease and there has been a great improvement in the treatment. Surgeons are now able to operate and repair the heart without risking the patient.
Work cited
Childs and Susan Kansagra. “10 Health Advances That Changed the World.” ABC News, 20 Sept. 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/Health/TenWays/story?id=3605442&page=1 .
