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
