Improvements in technology - diagnosing and treating illness

• Medicine in modern Britain has seen great advances in the 20th and 21st centuries as technology developed and the government became more involved in the health of the British people
• Improvements in technology


  • Diagnosing and treating illness
• Diagnosing illness


  Deciding which disease, illness or condition is present by looking carefully for its signs and symptoms
• Improvements in treating illness

  • Radiotherapy
  • Heart bypass surgery
  • Prosthetic limbs
  • Keyhole surgery
• Advances in technology enabled the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953
• Once scientists were able to map the code of DNA, they were able to understand the cause of genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Parkinson's disease
• The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990 to map the human genome, which is the full set of hereditary information found in a human's DNA
• The discovery of DNA led to the understanding that some diseases are genetic