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Everyday health and wellness tips to help you live a healthier life
2006, Issue 1 (pdf)

Breakthrough Medicine

Medical Milestones

Think how far medicine has come.

Penicillin was a medical breakthrough. So was the X-ray. And vaccinations. And insulin. Today, you can’t image medicine vaccinations. Today, you can’t image medicine without these tools.

Physicians and scientists from Hippocrates to Madame Curie, from Louis Pasteur to Jonas Salk have used their curiosity and from Louis Pasteur to Jonas Salk have used their curiosity and science to understand everything from smallpox to polio, from cholera to HIV.

Today’s cutting edge technology allows UI Hospitals and Clinics health care providers to look deeper into the human body, do it less intrusively, and with more accuracy.

With each new success, scientists, physicians, and inventors become bolder in developing new clinical applications for technology. The achievements that have made today’s technology possible are a testament to the ingenuity of these people. There is no doubt that these new tools will increase the quality and efficiency of health care as well as save time and reduce costs.

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