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Monday, December 6, 2010

Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade


Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade (2000-2010): courtesy ABC news

  1. Decoding of the Human Genome
  2. Adoption of Information Technology ( e-health and mobile health)
  3. Smoking significantly reduced.(but alcohol consumption raised)
  4. Heart disease deaths reduced by 25%
  5. Stem cell research
  6. onco-chemotherapy - Targeted cancer therapy medicines
  7. Combination drug therapy extends Survival rates for HIV sufferers
  8. Micro surgical techniques that reduce invasion .
  9. Heart and cancer risk associated with hormone replacement therapy
  10. fMRI advances study of brain

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