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Progress in Medicine

Progress in Medicine
Medicine is the science of diagnosing, treating or prevented disease and damage to the body or mind.
List of medical advances

• HPV vaccine- this vaccine is available in the U.S. in 2006. It was proved for women and men.
• Robot Doing Surgeries- increased the ability of cancer surgeons to get clean margins and good magnification of the sutures.
• Face transplant Surgery- It was a French surgeon who performed the patial face transplant.
• MRi and rtMs- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and repetitive Transcranial magnetic stimulation.
• new drugs for treating cancer- Herceptin and Gleevec
• stem cell research- will lead to cure of what known disease like Diabetes.  
• I.t among DRs and patient- it made life safer for the patient. Physician have answered in a matter of second.
• human genome discoveries- mapping the human genome have accelerated since the 1990’s.

Genes can be now used in screening diseases. Gene Screens became a powerful tool, not just for diagnosing Cancer but also for treating it as well.

·       Radioactive Isotopes- are atoms in unstable form.

·       Examples of Medical Isotopes Application:

Breast Cancer, Branchy Therapy

Liver Cancer, microsphere Branchy therapy

·       Alzheimer’s Disease

SPECT- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

PECT- Positron Emission Computed Tomography

·       HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus