Treatment

• 1951 - first contraceptive pill
• 1954-5 - free triple vaccine (diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus) and vaccine for polio
• 1964 - free measles vaccine for the UK
• 1969 - free vaccine for German measles (rubella) in the uk
• 1970 - drugs to prevent body rejecting transplant organs are developed
• 1975 - endoscopes are developed allowing doctors to see inside the body
• 1978 - doctors use IVF fertility treatment. The first test tube baby, Louise brown is born
• 1980 - smallpox declared eradicated across the globe
• 1984 - two burn victims in the Us are given skin grafts
• 1987 - MRI scanning is widely used to monitor brain activity and find brain tumors
• 2006 - first HPV vaccine
• 2013 - first human liver grown from stem cells