It’s an exciting time to be alive. We’re seeing some amazing medical breakthroughs, with plenty more advancements on the horizon. Some of the top researchers in their fields have shared their predictions, and -the future of medicine looks bright. Lifesaving Heart Advances - Heart attacks strike 735,000 people each year in the U.S., killing 610,000 of them. 210,000 of those had suffered at least one...
While the medical world we live in is currently thriving, this certainly hasn’t always been the case. It’s true that the world is still full of bogus - health myths - and ‘miracle cures’, but it’s safe to say the world has come a long ways since the archaic approaches of the past. From unnecessary surgeries to outlandish drugs, take a peek into past approaches and unearth old world views on health,...
One revolutionary theory that is of special importance in medicine is the germ theory of disease: the (at the time) shocking realization or assertion that many diseases (most significantly, those that were responsible for the highest mortality globally) had a microbiological origin - to put it more bluntly, those that were caused by tiny organisms, many of which could not be seen with the naked eye....