impact if science and technology on advances in medicine

• after penicillin, more antibiotics were discovered
• huge advances in treating cancers - chemotherapy
• better at testing and trialling drugs - after thalidomide disaster in 1960 (:()
• mass production of pills makes distribution easier
• development of capsules which dissolve in the stomach make pills easier to take
• insulin pumps deliver insulin with out the need for injections
• Hypodermic needles allow precise dose to be introduced directly into the bloodstream
• over use of antibiotics - super bug develops - bacteria becomes immune to antibiotics