Science, Health, and Medicine

Science, Health/Medicine The 1980s was a huge breakthrough for science and medicine. A lot of drugs were invented and checkup procedures were carried out for the first time. Some of the medicinal inventions were * 1980, the hepatitis-B vaccine. * 1982, homosexual growth hormone genetically engineered. * 1983, Soft central contact lens invented. * 1986, Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III. * 1987, the introduction of Prozac it transformed the treatment of depression. * 1989, The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented. In 1982, the first ever artificial human boob, do by Dr.Robert Jarvik, was implanted into Barney Clark he survived for 112 days. In 1984, in the Loma Linda Medical Center, bollocks Fayes heart is explanted and replaced with a baboon heart. She survived for 3 weeks but died of a kidney infection which could or could prevail not have been ca utilize by the new heart her body might have been rejecting. Stephanie fuel-air explosive Beauclair Stephanie Fae Bea uclair In 1984, researchers identified the virus that caused AIDS as HIV and in 1986, it was recognised that AIDS was transfer through heterosexual contact as substantially as homosexual contact. Test tube louse up (In vitro fertilisation)In vitro fertilisation is a process where the egg is fertilised by the sperm removed of the body in a test tube and is a procedure that is used for people who arent able to have a baby the natural way. Once the egg has been fertilised outside the body, it is transferred into the uterus so that it can have a natural birth like any otherwise baby. Even though the first in vitro baby was born(p) in 1978, the number of IVF babies had risen in the 80s because of huge improvements to the treatment. Australias first IVF baby was born in 1980, USAs in 1981 and in Sweden and France, 1982.