Interview prep: medical advances
For each choice, you must justify why you believe this to be the case
Most impactful (unlikely to be
niche)
Most interesting (remember this
will be personal to you)
Last 10 years
Legalisation of medical cannabis
has been used to help treat people
who have rare forms of epilepsy
such as Dravet syndrome, and
medical cannabis has been FDA
approved for usage of
cannabidiol. Impactful as it
opens up more options for people
who are suffering from seizures,
as well as being able to assist
those with parkinsons, with THC
having evidence for helping with
hand eye coordination
Robotic exoskeleton for
parapalegics
Company called argo launched a
device called ReWalk at the start
of this decade, and it allows
people with spinal chord injuries
to be able to stand upright, walk,
climb upstairs, and was able to
receive FDA approval by 2011.
Last 50 years
Stem cell technology allows us to
be able to repair failing organs
via the processes of tissue
engineering and regenerative
medicine
Stem cells also have an exciting
future, with the usage of them
with combination of bio-
scaffolding and 3d printing, we
will be able to begin construction
for entire organs for
transplanting, which would help
massively incase there is a
shortage of organs needed for
certain life saving transplants
Immunisation
Its interesting how humans were
able to manipulate the very
pathogens that cause us such
illnesses, and use it to quite
literally train our own internal
immune systems to be able to
have a stronger,m faster response
to such illnesses, to large success
Last 100 years
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
The EEG can be used to pick up
electric signals sent out during
brain activity. This is done via a
painless process of small
electrodes being placed on the
head of the patient which allow
these signals to be picked up.
This is very unlikely to be niche
due to having an understanding
of the human brain and how it
functions via these signals
allowing us to better understand
how we can understand the
human body itself and study how
different disorders effect the brain
thereby understanding better how
to help with these
Antibiotics.
Ever since its discovery
antibiotics have been fascinating
to me due to not only how they
function, being able to kill off
/block the vital processes of
bacteria, yet also how bacteria
itself can adapt around these
antibiotics and evolve to become
Its fascinating to me how we are
now able to create machinery so
advanced it can not only read
brainwaves but also interpret
them and translate this into
movement for machinery . I also
find it hopeful that humanity has
advanced so far in science and
technology that we are able to
find ways around even the most
severe injuries
that we were able to (now more resistant to them, thereby
temporarily unfortunately) forming a sort of arms race with
eliminate measles. bacteria which adapt to gain
What also interests me is how resistance, and humanity who
controversial vaccines are due to keep on discovering new
false information, most famously antibiotics that work against
the Andrew wakefield paper on them.
the MMR vaccine having links to
autism (which was disproven)
and the anti vaccine movement
that followed which actually lead
to measles returning