GCSE History-Medicine 1900-present day

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What year did Watson and Crick discover the double helix?

What genetic treatment involves repairing damaged tissue and potentially treating cancer, heart attacks and leukaemia ?

Type 2 diabetes is caused by having too much what in your diet?

Who developed the first magic bullet?

What was the fist magic bullet called?

What year did he discover it?

What disease did it cure?

In 1932, Gerhard Domagk discovered a bright red dye, what was it called?

What did it cure?

What year did Fleming discover penicillin?

What year does Fleming abandon his work?

What year do Florey and Chain look for a magic bullet for infection?

In 1942 who does Florey go to to try and get Penicillin mass produced because the British pharmaceutical industry won't fund it?

What major event of the time put pressure on the discovery of something that could conquer infection?

Radiotherapy and what other new treatment could treat cancer?

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When old, damaged tissue and organ's are replaced with new ones.

What year was the NHS established?

What did everyone get with the NHS as opposed to only a few being able to afford health insurance?

With the NHS, what did you no longer have to do for ambulances?

Doctors could now do what when working under the NHS?

Over time does the NHS become cheaper of more expensive to run?

With free healthcare what do people have to wait longer for?

In the 1980's, leaflets were handed out across the country to warn people of what?

Before mass vaccinations in 1942, how many babies died each year to diptheria?

What year did the government pass the law made it illegal to smoke in public areas?

What percentage of lung cancer cases are from smoking?

Doctors used to use X-rays to diagnose lung cancer. What do they do now?

By 2005 what type of advertising was banned completely?

In 2007 what was increased to stop people from purchasing tobacco?