Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs
Before I was a Business Education and Business Administration I was considering the psychology side of the medical field. I have always been very interested in new things happening in the medical field so when I found this article I was very interested. I will list each of the breakthroughs and talk about them a little as well. Also I have link facts that I found about each breakthrough from other sites.
#1. Circumcision Can Prevent HIV
In December 2006, the National Institutes of Health halted two clinical trials of male circumcision after an early review of the data showed that the procedure dramatically reduced transmission of HIV.
I think this is a great thing because HIV is becoming more and more common now days and we need to find ways that we can prevent it from spending and this is one way that we can start. Why not start at a young age for boys?

#2. Test for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Surgeons now have a faster way to assess whether breast cancer has spread, thanks to the FDA's approval of the first molecular test to detect metastatic breast cancer. During the patient's lumpectomy or mastectomy, surgeons traditionally examine the lymph node closest to the breast.
I am always been interested in new breakthrough for breast cancer because I know many people who had suffered from this and I lost a very close cousin to this as well. I think women need to be offer of how important it is to go in for annual exams.

#3. First Human Vaccine Against Bird Flu
In 2007 the threat of a pandemic avian flu got a teensy bit less scary. The deadly disease has killed 207 people worldwide and infected 336 since 2003. While only a small number of those cases were traced to human-to-human transmission, public health officials fear it's only a matter of time before the virus mutates into a more easily transmitted form and sparks a global outbreak. This year the FDA approved the first human vaccine against the bird flu.
I am still learning about how serious this actually is. I have never heard of anyone that I know of with this. It sounds like if someone was to get this that it would be very serious as well.

#4. Help for Dieters: Alli Need help shedding those extra holiday pounds? Overweight adults now have an extra weapon against fat: Alli, the first FDA-approved weight-loss drug sold over the counter. Alli (a.k.a. orlistat) works by monkeying with lipase, an enzyme the body uses to break down and digest the fat in food.
My uncle took this and he did lose a lot of weight. I know there was certain foods that he stayed away from because the of effect that it had on his body when the food mixed with the drug.

#5. New Diabetes Genes
Having a parent with type 2 diabetes ups your odds of developing the disease, but why do some sibs get it and others don't? The answer lies somewhere in your genetic code, and this year brought scientific sleuths closer to cracking it.
I am learning more and more about diabetes as the years go on. One of my close friends 5 year old daughter was just diagnosed with diabetes and they are struggling to keep it under control but they are learning quickly and how food have effects on her body.

#6. No More Periods
Women wanting to dodge the nuisance of their monthly menses can now turn to Lybrel, the first continuous use birth control drug approved by the FDA.
Any women would love this. To take this away each month would also take away those unwanted craving we get and the uncomfortable feelings as well.

7. Relief from Fibromyalgia: Lyrica
People who suffer from the chronic fatigue, muscle pain, and stiffness of fibromyalgia finally have a drug to call their own. This year the FDA approved the antiseizure drug Lyrica (pregabalin), made by Pfizer, as a treatment for fibromyalgia.

#8. Early-Stage Test for Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in America and is responsible for more deaths than the next three most common cancers combined (colon, breast, and prostate). One reason lung cancer is so deadly is that by the time tumors are diagnosed, usually as a result of physical symptoms like coughing up blood, the cancer is often advanced and tough to treat.

#9. New Source of Stem Cells
This was a banner year for stem-cell research. But one advancement that may not have had its due was the discovery of stem cells in amniotic fluid. Researchers believe that amniotic fluid–derived stem cells, AFS for short, have the potential to give rise to many, but perhaps not all, of the 220 specialized cell types found in the human body — placing the potential usefulness of AFS cells somewhere between embryonic and adult stem cells.

#10. Benefits of Vitamin D
Researchers have long known that the "sunshine vitamin" boosts bone strength by encouraging the body to absorb calcium. But a slew of new studies published in 2007 suggests that the vitamin has a lot of other benefits: Diets high in D may ward off diabetes, gum disease and multiple sclerosis — and maybe even cancer. Though some findings linking vitamin D and cancer showed questionable benefit, the news on colon cancer was promising.
I love to lie in the tanning bed in the winter and in the summer I could spend the entire day outside in the sun. Just like anything else there are always pros and cons to everything and this is also one of those things.

Overview
I felt this article is very beneficial to anyone who is interested in new medical research and anyone who may be affected by one of these top 10 breakthroughs as well. There are also many links that I have added to other sites that give more info on each topic. I been very interested in these topics that I have been doing a lot of reading on the different findings for all of these. I think medical breakthroughs have come so far over the years, who knows what it will be like five or ten years from now or even if you think about it even just a year from now.