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Asked by TMPscience to Chris, Georgina, Kristi, Laura on 14 Nov 2017.
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Laura Ginesi answered on 14 Nov 2017:
Most of my work is about teaching students who are going to become health professionals like nurses, midwives, paramedics, doctors etc, so there are FAR too many discoveries in physiology to mention in a little space.
However I will start with just a few things that were “new discoveries” in the past but which you might now think of as everyday:-
1) blood groups – so people can have safe transfusions
2) electrocardiograms (ECG) – which, along with pulse and blood pressure measurements, tell us about a person’s heart
3) X-rays and scanning machines – enable us to look inside real, living bodies
4) vaccination – people can be protected against diseases that used to be killers like smallpox, polio, tetanus etc
5) medicines – everything from anaesthetics through insulin pumps and epi-pens to antibiotics, chemotherapy, anti-malarials, anti hypertensives or statinsA good place to start finding out about other key discoveries in physiology is the Nobel Prize website @ https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/.
It’s got some good games too!
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Georgina Hazell answered on 15 Nov 2017:
The discovery that hormones are released in pulses. The stress hormone cortisol is released in pulses throughout the day, with highest levels in the morning.
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TMPscience commented on :
Thank you for answering
Livia commented on :
I discovered that there are some molecules in our blood that can tell us who will get better or not from taking antidepressants. This is important because around 30% of those who take antidepressants never get better but still have side effects
Laura commented on :
I think this is a cool discovery!!