20th/21st Century Health Care Timeline

20th/21st Century Health Care Timeline

1900-1910

2000-2010

1901- Karl Landsteiner classifies blood types (A, B, AB, & O)

1920-1930

1940-1950

1980-1990

1960-1970

1907- first successful blood transfusion

1903- Willem Einthoven invents the first electrocardiograph

2000- First human genome is announced

1960- First ICU opened

Citations

1965- Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law

U.S. Life Expectancy. (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2015.

1923- Insulin became widely available

1928- Penicilin, most widely used antibiotic in the world, was discovered

1944- FDR establishes "Economic Bill of Rights"

1948- World Health Organization

is established

Life expectancy-

77 years

Life expectancy- 47 years

Life Expectancy. (2015, April 29). Retrieved September 16, 2015.

Medicine and Madison Avenue. (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2015.

Life expectancy - 70 years

1980- First commercial use of the MRI

1980- W.H.O. announces smallpox is eradicated

1983- HIV is discovered

Pou, J. (2010, December 30). 2010: The year in medical breakthroughs. Retrieved September 16, 2015.

• Heart disease deaths drop by 40%
• Stem cell research

Life expectancy - 54 years

Life expectancy- 73 years

Vaccinations of the 20th Century

Life expectancy - 63 years

• Anti-Smoking laws reduce public smoking

Medical Advances Timeline. (2015, June 1).Retrieved September 14, 2015.

1981- Hepatatis B

1992- Hepatitis A

1998- Lyme Disease

The 20th Century And On: Drugs to Treat Sicknesses. (2015). Retrieved September 14, 2015.

1970

1950

1930

1990

1910

2010

Advancements in the 20th Century. (n.d.). Retrieved September 14, 2015, from http://piusgirl54.tripod.com/id2.html

• 1923- Diptheria
• 1926- Pertussis
• 1927- Tuberculosis
• 1927- Tetanus
• 1935- Yellow fever
• 1937- Typhus
• 1945 - Influenza
• 1964- Measles
• 1967- Mumps
• 1970- Rubella
• 1974- Chicken pox
• 1977- Pneumonia
• 1978- Meningitis

21st Century Discoveries. (n.d.). Retrieved September 14, 2015, from http://piusgirl54.tripod.com/id4.html

1920

1940

1980

2000

1960

1900

History of Diphtheria. (2015). Retrieved September 16, 2015, from http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/diphtheria

1950-1960

Lloyd, R. (2010, November 3). Rosalind Franklin and DNA: How wronged was she? Retrieved September 16, 2015.

2010-now

1990-2000

1970-1980

1910-1920

medicine advancements of the 19th and 20th century (2015). timerime. TimeRime. Available at: http://timerime.com/en/timeline/888894/medicine advancements of the 19th and 20th century/.

1930-1940

1953- James Watson and Francis Crick introduced the double helix structure of the DNA molecule

1954- First kidney transplant between two identical twins

Life expectancy - 68 years

Artificial heart valve is developed by Charles Hufnagel

1996- The first successful clone from an adult somatic cell, Dolly, is born!

1990- The human genome project begins

2010- President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act

2015- DNA from a woolly mammoth was spliced into an elephant.

"Hepatitis A, B, and C: Learn the Differences." Accessed September 16, 2015. http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4075.pdf.

1971- CT scans are introduced

1978- First test tube baby born in the United Kingdom

ObamaCare: Pros and Cons of ObamaCare. (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2015, from http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-pros-and-cons/

1916- Polio epidemics break out in Boston and New York City

1917- Dr. Ivan Magill invents the endotracheal tube

1918-1919- An influenze pandemic kills 15 million people worldwide, including 600,000 in the U.S.

1934- Social Security benefits the unemployment and older citizens (Great Depression)

1937- Bernard Fantus establishes first blood bank in Chicago

Wilson Greatbatch invents the

first artificial pacemaker

Life expectancy-

71 years

Life expectancy - 50 years

Life expectancy- 75 years

Life expectancy

as of 2015: 79 yrs

Life expectancy - 60 years