The significance of medical advances

Whether it's technological developments that allows us to repair human bodies or medicines that have both saved and extended our lives, it's easy to see how advances in health and medicine have touched the lives of nearly every person on the planet. Yet, because many of these medical breakthroughs have now become common place, we often take for granted the technologies and practices that, at one point or another, almost certainly saved our lives or the lives of people we love.

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The breakthroughs in medical science are by far the most significant advances in world society over the last two centuries.

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