Recent breakthroughs in Medicine

Vorsprung

Hi lads,

There's a small chance I may be asked something like this in one of my last exams on Wednesday. I'm a bit lazy/pre-occupied with tomorrow's exam so just wondering if any breakthroughs spring to mind? Basically need one for medicine and one for surgery! Was gonna talk about CT colonoscopy, but heard that wasn't all it was cracked up to be after the initial few papers.

Cheers

rugbug86

I dont know if this is what you need but a lecturer in DCU discovered an antibody present in early stage breast cancer.

In trials now...

Bison

There is an artificial electronic retina trial starting in the UK this month

The Argus II™ technology consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mounted in a pair of glasses. This camera transmits a wireless signal via a small processing device to an ultra thin electronic receiver, and electrode panel that is implanted in the eye and attached to the retina.

The electrodes stimulate the remaining retinal nerves allowing a signal to be passed along the optic nerve to the brain. The brain perceives patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to which electrodes are stimulated.

http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/Aboutus/Mediaoffice/Mediareleases/MOORFIELDSCARRIESOUTFIRSTUKOPERATIONSUSINGSECONDSIGHTSARGUSIIRETINALIMPLANTTECHNOLOGY

Vorsprung

Yea I heard about that thing Bison, looks cool! Might talk ****e about that for 5 mins :pac::pac:

Cheers to the pair of ya

Chunky Monkey

http://www.biology-online.org/articles/gene_therapy_converts_dead.html

This is from 2005 so dunno if it's of any use to you Jim. Nevertheless, very interesting.