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Public AED's
Who invented it: Frank Pantridge
The name of the invention: Defibrillators
What the invention does: An apparatus used to control heart fibrillation by application of an electric current to the chest wall or heart.
How is it affecting our health: making it safer to travel around and stay healthy. -
HIV Cocktail
Who invented it: Ryan White
The name of the invention: HAART
What the invention does: A lot of treatable medications mixed together to help treat HIV or make HIV easier on the being.
How is it affecting our health: Treats HIV -
Anti- Smoking Laws
Who invented it: San Luis Obispo, California
The name of the invention: Smoking ban
What the invention does: Attempt to protect people from the effects of second-hand smoke, which include an increased risk of heart disease, cancer, emphysema, and other diseases.
How is it affecting our health: Improve work productivity, and lower the overall cost of labour in the community thus protected, making that workforce more attractive for employers. -
Robotic Surgery
Who invented it: AESOP
The name of the invention: Computer motion (da vinci)
What the invention does: For its endoscopic surgical procedure. And for general laparoscopic surgery.
How is it affecting our health: Greatly reducing the risk of infection. -
Hepatitis C cure
Who invented it: Michael Sofia
The name of the invention: Sovaldi
What the invention does: Recast hepatitis C from a hard-to-treat illness into an easily managed one that can be cured.
How is it affecting medicine in our health: When used alongside other drugs it also worked much faster than any other hepatitis C treatments and had both fewer side effects and much higher success rates
Invented in 2007 and in 2010 used on the first human -
Eye Writer Technology
Who invented it: Mick Ebeling
The name of the invention: EyeWriter
What the invention does: Open source eye-tracking system designed to allow people with limited mobility to draw using their eyes.
How is affecting our health: For example, it is now being distributed to ALS patients and neuromuscular disease support groups in India, while another version allows children’s drawings to be reproduced with a robotic arm. -
Gene Editing
Who invented it: Jennifer Dounda
The name of the invention: CRISPR-Cas9
What the invention does: Scientists were able to alter DNA to correct genetic defects in animals and modify DNA sequences in embryonic stem cells, an advance that opened the path to germ-line (sperm and egg) genome modification in humans.
How is it affecting our health: Minimize their consequence by providing a functional copy of the mutated gene, either inserted into the genome or maintained as an extra chromosomal unit. -
Molecular Breast imaging
Who invented it: Michael K o’connor
The name of the invention: MBI
What the invention does: Molecular breast imaging (MBI) is a supplemental imaging technology designed to find tumors that would otherwise be obscured by surrounding dense breast tissue on a mammogram.
How is it affecting our health: Finding breast cancer or tumors more easily in the breast -
Immunotherapy for cancer treatments
Who invented it: Amgen
The name of the invention: talimogene laherparepvec
What the invention does: treatment of advanced melanoma.
How is it affecting our health: treatment of lung cancer. -
Artificial Pancreas
Who in vented it: Dana Lewis
Artificial pancreas system (APS)
What the invention does: It will start making corrections as needed. So people with diabetes don’t have to wake up every night checking their blood pressure to see if it rises or drops for any reason. Because that can cause sleep deprivation.
How is it affecting medicine: Currently, nearly 400 people use Open APS, ranging from age one to 77.
