Biomedical Research Books
20th-Century
Medicine
Medicine's
most revolutionary advances have occurred since 1900.
By the end of the 20th century, medical advances helped
to increase the average person's life expectancy by
almost 30 years. As people lived longer, new medical
challenges emerged. Heart disease, cancer, stroke, and
other conditions often associated with aging replaced
infectious diseases as the leading causes of death.
Physicians began to devote greater attention to preventing
disease and keeping patients healthy into advanced age.
Biomedical research also shifted focus to the most basic
causes of diseases, including defects in individual
genes.
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