• May 1, 2024

In the recent World Summit of Innovation for Health , held in the city of Doha, one of the inventions chosen by the attendees was a motorcycle that can become an ambulance / clinic and allows access to impassable areas for other vehicles.

Like this simple invention, there is a multitude of proposals, inventions, projects and initiatives related to the Health , whose usefulness and effectiveness can save our lives. In GetQoralHealth , we bring you to 7 of the most transcendental.

Health and innovation!

1. Anesthesia: Since the end of the 19th century, anesthesia It has saved millions of people and, to this day, continues to evolve. It is essential to inhibit sensitivity (in order to carry out a surgical intervention) and the ability to feel pain.

2. Antibiotics: His discovery was one of the great revolutions of medicine. For the first time, at the beginning of the 20th century and with the finding of penicillin , the infections could be treated and cured without harming the patient's organism. As the penicillin , the other antibiotics are used to cure millions of patients in the world without harming their organism.

3. X-rays and other image-based techniques (ultrasound, tomography). Invented by Wilhelm Röntgen Two centuries ago, they revolutionized medicine by offering the possibility of seeing inside the body without having to open it. In addition, they revealed the world that existed within our organism and led to the creation of new surgical techniques.

4. Chlorpromazine. Used especially in psychiatric medicine , this compound acts as a tranquilizer, but without sedating the patient, who maintains consciousness. It has allowed, since the middle of the 20th century, many schizophrenics to follow a practically normal life.

5. Vaccines and tissue culture. This technique is due to the existence of several vaccines, such as the one that prevents mumps, rubella or smallpox, and has been of great help to obtain vaccinations cheap against polio and yellow fever. In this sense, the vaccinations They have been able to eradicate millenary ailments. Its existence is due to the studies carried out by Louis Pasteur .

6. The discovery of the structure of DNA. More than an invention, it was a discovery. We owe it to the scientists Watson and Crick that in 1953 they represented for the first time the structure of DNA . Since then, the study of the human genome has allowed great progress in the study of diseases hereditary

7. Computers: Without a doubt, this human invention has changed our way of learning, of living and even communicating. Its technology allows to improve the levels of Health and well-being of millions of people in the world, no matter who we are or where we are.

In a recent exhibition in CaixaForum Barcelona , the visitors we could know new inventions that continue saving lives, these "big ones" show that the ingenuity of man is immeasurable.