| | allergy medicines |
| | anesthesia - greatly reduces pain in operations and child birth |
| | Angioplasty - improved heart surgery |
| | Asacol - medication used to treat Crohns' Disease in the intestine |
| | cable television - more and better quality television |
| | cellular phones - allows you to be in contact with the world at all times |
| | CAT scans - helps diagnose brain problems |
| | chemotherapy - greatly improved cure rates |
| | Chicken pox vaccinations |
| | cloning - will eventually be a highly debated human health issue in the world |
| | dental implants |
| | digital hearing aids |
| | digital photography - expedited the development process and improved the ease of use |
| | digital video recording at home (DVR) |
| | dinosaurs are extinct because of an asteroid |
| | discovering the ozone hole over the antarctic |
| | discovery of AIDS - at least we know what's killing us |
| | discovery of Dark Matter - redevelops the question of evolution vs creation |
| | discovery of DNA - revolutionized health care |
| | discovery of plate techtonics - helps understand earthquakes |
| | down syndrom testing in the womb |
| | Ezetimibe, Ezetrol - a cholesterol drug |
| | feto-maternal medicine - detecting and treating medical problems in the fetus |
| | fiber optics - offers reliable transmission of information over long distances |
| | flu shots |
| | Gaia hypothesis - shaped enviromental views and led to recycling movement |
| | gene therapy and mapping the human genome - allows for breakthroughs in health care |
| | glucosamine chondroitin - helps joints function better, reduces pain |
| | HIV testing |
| | HPV vaccine - prevents women from dying from cervical cancer |
| | hybrid automobiles - better gas mileage for you, better air for the earth |
| | hydrogen fuel - decreased emissions |
| | I.V. therapy - allows for fluid replacement and antibiotic administration |
| | infrared technology - allows for simple inventions like the remote control |
| | insulin - improves people who suffer from diabetes |
| | Internet - evolution from ARPA to HTTP and HTML |
| | invitro - improves pregnancy and child bearing process |
| | Kidney dialysis |
| | landing on mars |
| | laser discs - DVDs and CDs allow for bigger, better video and sound |
| | laser eye surgery - lets you throw away your contacts and glasses |
| | liquid crystals - better bigger yet thinner tvs |
| | lithium battery |
| | mapping the fruit-fly genome |
| | microwaves - allows you to cook food faster |
| | mp3 compression - makes audio easier to work with and reason why iPods exist |
| | MRI - improved health care |
| | pacemakers - keeps people with heart problems alive much longer |
| | photovoltanic cells - makes solar power possible |
| | Plant Stanols - blocking effect on cholesterol |
| | polio vaccine |
| | proton knife - allows for a non-evasive procedure to remove in-operable tumors |
| | Prozac and other antidepressants |
| | robotics - revolutionized factories and hospital operating rooms |
| | satellite technology - keeps the world connected and allows for global positioning systems (GPS) to exist |
| | scanning electron microscopes - stronger and better microscopes at molecular levels |
| | small wavelength lasers - allows microchips to be smaller, faster and more efficient |
| | smoke detectors |
| | space exploration |
| | splitting the atom - allows for the atomic weapons |
| | the Pill - revolutionized birth control |
| | stem cell research - helps to find cures for diseases |
| | teeth whitening treatments |
| | tranistors - started the evolution of personal computers |
| | transfusion medicine |
| | transplant technology - not just heart, kidney, lungs and liver; now corneas, skin, muscle tissue and bone matter |
| | UPC codes - speed up check-out process and store inventory management |
| | Vaccine for Anthrax - scary it exists though |
| | Viagra |
| | VOIP - allows you to call people around the world for free |
| | wireless internet - allows you to unplug from the wall |
| | WiFi |
| | zinc tablets - helps prevent colds |
| | Zomig, Imitrex and other migraine medication |