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Originally Posted by crucifissio
your healthcare is IRL the same as in serbia or cuba...maybe the USA can cure some 1 in 1000 condition but for 99% of the population this means shit...I would rather be in an old hospital room and get treatment for pennies than be in some fancy room and get debt slavery  |
lol
Here's a long list of serbia and cuban contributions to the medical world:
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Here's the USA's
1799
Smallpox vaccine
1843
Puerperal fever
1846
Anesthesia
1886
Appendicitis
1890s–1910
Insect-borne disease transmission; scurvy; heat-killed vaccines
1914
Electrocardiograph
1922
Insulin; founding of Joslin Diabetes Center.
1923
Heart valve surgery
1925
Three-flanged nail
1927
Iron lung; syphilis test
1929
First polio patient saved
1930s–1940s
Overactive thyroid; rickets; osteoporosis
1933
Intracellular fluid and electrolytes
1938
Corrective heart surgery for children
1942
Burn treatment; blood bank; emergency-response plans
1945
Pap smear
1946
Rh disease
1947
Artificial kidney; pediatric remission of acute luekemia
1948
Stenotic mitral heart valves
1949
Vaccine culture technique; cortisone; White classification
1950
Wilms tumor
1951
Brain proteolipids
1952
Kidney transplant
1954
Oral contraceptives
1957
Brain structures
1960
Platelets; proton beam therapy; implantable cardiac pacemaker
1962
Human limb reattachment; heart rhythm restoration
1964
Human blood storage
1965
Pan-retinal coagulation
1968
Telemedicine
1969
Intra-aortic balloon catheter
1970
Human oncogene; positron emission tomography (PET) scan
1973
Noninvasive fetal heart monitoring
1974
Photochemotherapy
1976
Insulin resistance receptors
1977
Virus particle structure
1978
Prenatal DNA sequencing
1979
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
1980s
HIV/AIDS
1981
Artificial skin; premature puberty reversal
1983
Congenital birthmark treatment; Huntington's disease
1984
Oncomouse; skin replacement; TIMI
1986
Kawasaki disease retrovirus; Alzheimer's disease
1987
Early-onset Alzheimer's gene; Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene
1988
Laser tattoo removal
1989
Tumor blood vessel growth compound
1990s
Proteasome-inhibiting cancer therapy
1992
Diphtheria toxin structure; amyloid beta
1993
Neovascular macular degeneration; microRNAs; paralyzed vocal cord surgical method; colon cancer gene; VEGF molecule
1994
PR-39 molecule
1995
Triple-organ transplant; kidney disease blood glucose levels
1996
Alzheimer's treatments; immune system advances
1997
p73 gene; asprin
1998
Adult live-donor liver transplant
1999
Fluorescent molecular probes
2000
Brain abnormalities associated with abuse and neglect
2001
Circadian clock
2002
Rheumatoid arthritis pathway; C-reactive protien
2003
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment; source of preeclampsia
2004
Blood stem cells; protein transfer
2005
Prenatal nutrition; herpes vaccine candidate
2006
Cholesterol mechanism; DNA sequencing techniques
2007
Cellular switch; rheumatoid arthritis gene; brown-fat cell switch
2008
RIPKI inhibitors; metastatic melanoma remission
2009
LIN28 protien; RNA interference; cancer cells' starvation; brown fat
2010
Enhancer transcription
2011
Kidney failure markers; cancer cell vulnerability; global health care budget models
2012
Tumor suppressor gene p53; ancient migration; infectious disease diagnostics
2013
Cardiac hypertrophy reversal; cathepsin k pathways
2014
Hematopoietic stem cells; pancreatic stem cells
2015
Bioartificial replacement limb; PD-1 pathway; The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery; pseudogene; damaged protein disposal; multiple sclerosis; somatic mutations; deafness gene therapies
2016
Sigma-1 receptor structure; Zika vaccine candidate; circadian rhythm-bipolar disorder link; microbiome
2017
Rheumatoid arthritis; precision treatments