Advances in the last century have radically transformed medical care. It was only in the 1920s that blood transfusion started to become commonplace when the Red Cross members volunteered donations. The medics had understood the science of circulation since William Harvey in 1628 and Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups in 1901, but it took the development of medical devices to store and transfuse blood for this information to be used in effective treatment. In the 1960s an Indian hospital technician watching his bicycle tyre being repaired, went back and tried the same technology on an artificial foot - still available as the Jaipur foot.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Latest developments in Polymers for manufacturing medical devices
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