Medical Frontiers: New Scientist: The Collection (New Scientist: The Collection Volume Two Book 2)

Medical Frontiers: New Scientist: The Collection (New Scientist: The Collection Volume Two Book 2)

If you fell ill 100 years ago there wasn’t much you could do except pray. Penicillin was still more than a decade off, surgery was crude, immunisation rare, cancer a death sentence and blood transfusions thought impossible. In the UK, two-thirds of people died before they were 60. <br /><br />How times have changed. Life expectancy in the west is now above 80, largely thanks to advances in medical technology. The past century has seen a revolution in health care: antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, immunisations, transplants, implants, X-rays, ultrasound, diagnostics and intensive care have all become routine. To a time traveller from 1915, a modern hospital would look like science fiction. <br /><br />Medical Frontiers is dedicated to the frontiers of medicine. From drug discovery and diagnostics to genetics, stem cells, digital doctors and brain implants, incredible progress is being made right now.