Friday, December 18, 2009

The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade: Med Page today

The Top 10 Medical Advances of the Decade

By Lauren Cox, ABC Medical News Unit, Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today
Published: December 17, 2009
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Dr. John Sulston, Director of the Sanger Centre near Cambridge takes part in the Human Genome Project. (Ho New/Reuters)

The first decade of the 21st Century brought a number of discoveries, mistakes, and medical advances that have influenced medicine from the patient's bedside to the medicine cabinet.

In some cases these advances changed deep-seated beliefs in medicine; in others, they opened up possibilities beyond what doctors thought was possible years ago.

ABC News, in collaboration with MedPage Today reached out to more than 800 specialists as well as a distinguished panel of medical historians to put together a top 10 list of medical advances one decade into this century.

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