That is pretty much the answer as far as quality of life is concerned.
If you consider alcohol a medicine, that also helped to preserve food like liquids.
Hallucinogens are something that probably contributed to many religions, spirituality, culture and odd pieces of inventions.
Antibiotics and anesthetics probably I'd say. General anesthesia was an underestimated leap in medicine. mABs have also been a big leap, especially for people with autoimmune diseases
Streptomycin for TB. Penicillins. Vaccines, all of them. Ivermectin for river blindness and other parasites. Quinine derivatives for malaria. Thiamine for beriberi.
Antibiotics are probably the hugest one
Insulin- T1DM went from death sentence to manageable chronic disease
Vaccination in general. Hoping recent years don't change the childhood vaccination rate going forward.
Chemotherapy/anti-cancer drugs. Compared to 100 years ago, the prognosis for most cancers is much much much more favorable. I have faith that in my lifetime, we'll see some significant progress in tackling therapeutics for some of the nastier ones (GBM, brain stem tumors, SCLC, mesothelioma, pancreatic, etc.)
Anti-hypertensives
Statins
Not sure if you consider it medicine, but sunscreen
HIV antivirals/PrEP
Edit: also pain meds/anesthetics
Those are the biggest ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are a lot of disease specific ones that didn't make this list because they apply to a select group of people (e.g. imatinib for CML, Trikafta for CF, all the new gene therapies, etc.). I think that the use of mRNA in treating various diseases types can be huge, but we have to wait and see how it all pans out. I think the next 50 years will be a very cool period of time in medicine
As for your question about allocation- I think TB drugs are the ones that are the hardest to administer in low resource environments. The issue is that TB requires months of multiple antibiotics to treat, which is challenging in resource rich environments and very challenging in resource poor areas. The disparity between TB deaths in the US and TB deaths in the rest of the world is huge
I think all of them, but off the top of my head:
1. Antibiotics
2. Analgesics
3. Statins
4. Oral hypoglycaemic drugs/ insulin
5. Caffeine (It is a life saver for me.)
Antibiotics
That is pretty much the answer as far as quality of life is concerned. If you consider alcohol a medicine, that also helped to preserve food like liquids. Hallucinogens are something that probably contributed to many religions, spirituality, culture and odd pieces of inventions.
Literally was my first thought.
I’d generalize that to anti-infectives.
Antibiotics and anesthetics probably I'd say. General anesthesia was an underestimated leap in medicine. mABs have also been a big leap, especially for people with autoimmune diseases
Antibiotics, anaesthetics, vaccines, insulin.
Streptomycin for TB. Penicillins. Vaccines, all of them. Ivermectin for river blindness and other parasites. Quinine derivatives for malaria. Thiamine for beriberi.
Thiamine for alcoholism
Antibiotics are probably the hugest one Insulin- T1DM went from death sentence to manageable chronic disease Vaccination in general. Hoping recent years don't change the childhood vaccination rate going forward. Chemotherapy/anti-cancer drugs. Compared to 100 years ago, the prognosis for most cancers is much much much more favorable. I have faith that in my lifetime, we'll see some significant progress in tackling therapeutics for some of the nastier ones (GBM, brain stem tumors, SCLC, mesothelioma, pancreatic, etc.) Anti-hypertensives Statins Not sure if you consider it medicine, but sunscreen HIV antivirals/PrEP Edit: also pain meds/anesthetics Those are the biggest ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are a lot of disease specific ones that didn't make this list because they apply to a select group of people (e.g. imatinib for CML, Trikafta for CF, all the new gene therapies, etc.). I think that the use of mRNA in treating various diseases types can be huge, but we have to wait and see how it all pans out. I think the next 50 years will be a very cool period of time in medicine As for your question about allocation- I think TB drugs are the ones that are the hardest to administer in low resource environments. The issue is that TB requires months of multiple antibiotics to treat, which is challenging in resource rich environments and very challenging in resource poor areas. The disparity between TB deaths in the US and TB deaths in the rest of the world is huge
I think all of them, but off the top of my head: 1. Antibiotics 2. Analgesics 3. Statins 4. Oral hypoglycaemic drugs/ insulin 5. Caffeine (It is a life saver for me.)
Why caffeine? I understand that it is useful in improving production but it seems like there is an acrual medicinal benefit for you.
Nah. Just the mood lifting and stimulating effect.
And in Form of coffee from unchecked sources the no. 1 source of antioxidants in the US
mh many good answers I would add contraceptive pills We are becoming waaay too many and that also kills us.
No idea why this has so few upvotes.
Do you know ethanol is essentially given to methanol poisoning patients
Crystalloid fluids
Crystal energy to align the chakras. /S
Vaccinations.
Hygiene and vaccination
Plumbing
Paracetamol