Medical Advances in the field of Pediatrics

By Won-Ho
  • Aspirin is first patented.

    Aspirin is first patented.

    Everyone has heard of aspirin, the wonder drug that numbs pain. It had a long history of cooperation between scientists and was a significant advance in the field of painnkillers.
  • Insulin was developed for diabetes

    Insulin was developed for diabetes

    The development of insulin was important to the field of pediatrics because it helped provide a remedy for diabetes, an increasingly dangerous problem in the 1900s.
  • Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming

    Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming

    The discovery of penicillin was a breakthrough in medical history because there was now an actual antibiotic that was proven to work.
  • Pediatrics allows patient into hospital

    Pediatrics allows patient into hospital

    Ground was broken for the Texas Children's Hospital adjacent to the Freeman Clinic. The first patient was admitted on September 13, 1940. It was important becuase the Texas Children's Hospital is now known as one of the country's leading pediatrics.
  • Pediatrics is beginning

    Pediatrics is beginning

    Children's Hospital set up a teaching relationship with the Baylor School of Nursing. This was impactful because it started pediatrics in the state of Texas.
  • Children's Hospital cooperates with Baylor

    Children's Hospital cooperates with Baylor

    Children's Hospital set up a teaching relationship with the Baylor School of Nursing. It helped establish a better educational curriculum for pediatrics and widened the field.
  • Dr. Selman Waksman develops streptomycin, an antibiotic that treats tuberculosis

    Dr. Selman Waksman develops streptomycin, an antibiotic that treats tuberculosis

    Streptomycin was an antibiotic that was developed by Dr. Waksman and his student, Albert Schatz. It was shown to have several capabilities of slowing down certain bacteria.
  • First vaccine for influenza

    First vaccine for influenza

    Influenza epidemics were common in a world where medicine was undeveloped. The influenza vaccine helped prevent these outbreaks and saved countless lives.
  • DNA was identified by Francis Crick and James Watson

    DNA was identified by Francis Crick and James Watson

    The discovery of DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid was a breakthrough in all fields of medicine because it explained the structure of the human body and the blueprint for making the human body.
  • First vaccine for polio is licensed by Jonas Salk

    First vaccine for polio is licensed by Jonas Salk

    Polio was a disease that usually resulted in either partial or full paralysis. It inflicted many children and even President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The vaccine is administered to children and adolescents and effectively helped make the world polio-free in 1994
  • First vaccine for mumps, measles, and rubella.

    First vaccine for mumps, measles, and rubella.

    Outbreaks of mumps, measles, and rubella were all deadly to the world and the first vaccine that countered all of them played a vital role in preventing these three diseases.
  • Vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, polio, and both hepatis a&b is developed.

    Vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, polio, and both hepatis a&b is developed.

    The four diseases listed above were countered in 2002 when the vaccines were developed by the company, Glaxo Smith Kline. It was a further vaccine that added on to previous vaccines for polio and the other diseases.
  • The MCv4 vaccine is administered to people all over the world

    The MCv4 vaccine is administered to people all over the world

    The MCv4 vaccine addresses the meningococcal disease, which causes meningitis. It is only administered once in a patient's lifetime.