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Main Medical Advancements in the 1970's

By jillybean7

  • First Vaccine for Rubella

    First Vaccine for Rubella
    Rubella is also known as German Measles. Rubella is a uncomplicated rash that normally lasts for a few days. If a pregnant woman gets this rash, there is a 30% - 35% change of fetal damage. The vaccine was later combined with measles and mumps vaacines to make the MMR Vaccine (by Maurice Hilleman).

  • First Vaccine for Chicken Pox

    First Vaccine for Chicken Pox
    The highly contagious infection is also known as Varicella. Before the vaccine, approx. 4 million children got chicken pox every year. The vaccine was invented in Japan in 1974, but was not intoduced in the United States until 1995.

  • CAT-Scan Invented

    CAT-Scan Invented
    Robert S. Ledley was the inventor of the CAT-Scan (Computerized Axial Tomography scan). This is a 3D x-ray in which a computer generates cross-section views of a patient's anatomy.

  • First Vaccine for Pneumonia

    First Vaccine for Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is defined as a lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid. Immunization for pneumonia is recommended for children under two years old, adults 65 or older, and others at risk.

  • Smallpox Eradicated

    Smallpox Eradicated
    Physician Edward Jenner developes the first vaccine for smallpox in 1796. He saw that milkmaids who got cowpox did not have scars from smallpox, so he took a small amount of fluid from a cowpox postule and the vaccine to a boy. The vaccine worked, and 1949 had the last recorded case in the US, In a little less than 200 years, smallpox was declared completely eradicated from the world.

  • First Vaccine for Meningitis

    First Vaccine for Meningitis
    Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes (meninges) surrounding the brain and spinal cord. There are two types of Meningitis. Viral meningitis usually doesn't cause serious illness.
    Bacterial meningitis needs to be treated right away to prevent brain damage and death.

  • First Test Tube Baby Born

    First Test Tube Baby Born
    Louise Brown's parents, Lesley and John Brown has been trying to concieve for many years but had faced complications. They chose to use the new procedure of in vitro fertilization (or IVF) to have a child. Some of the woman's eggs are removed from the uterus, fertilized in a labratory, and one egg is replaced 4-6 days later. Many people thought IVF was immoral. They thought "If life begins at conception and some fertilized eggs are being thrown away, innocent human lives are being taken!"