15 Greatest Milestones in Health and Medicine Online Lecture Series

27 June 2007

Lecture One
ANTIBIOTICS: THE EPITOME OF A WONDER DRUG
Professor Peter Collignon
Director of Infectious Diseases
The Canberra Hospital

The broad reach of this affordable and effective bacteria fighting rug allowed nations to prosper. It also placed a focus on prevention of disease rather then treatment.

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Lecture Two
GERM THEORY: INVISIBLE KILLERS REVEALED
Professor Lyn Gilbert
Centre of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney

When a doctor asked his students to wash their hands prior to assisting women in labour, mortality rates fell by 12%. This was germ theory. Find out why Life magazine listed germ theory within its top 10 advances of the previous millennium.

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