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Advances in research have accelerated in the past 10 years. Think of all the discoveries for managing diseases such as diabetes, new drugs and treatments for managing HIV thanks to clinical pharmacology, and procedures for minimizing recovery time for heart condition victims. However, the biggest advancement in health research has been combating cancer and increasing the survival rate. Cancer is one of the most debilitating and deadliest diseases and claims many lives annually. Historically, if you were diagnosed with cancer, you were guaranteed not to survive and may have had only days or weeks to live. Today, more and more people are surviving each and every day. While some people can see cancer going into remission, others live long and fruitful lives with the aid of medications. The key to this advancement is medical research. It has allowed clinicians to detect early signs of cancer and prepare a regimen plan before it can spread or become deadly. If cancer is detected early, the chances of survival are higher, thanks to advanced research in medicine, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.

It is not just cancer research: other health areas have progressed by leaps and bounds. Recent research unveiled discoveries in the development of more prescription drugs available in the market to aid with pain and treat infections faster than before. Procedures such as gall balder removal or stent insertion that used to take hours to execute are now done in minutes. Some diseases that were considered untreatable decades ago such as HIV are now more manageable. Thanks to medical research, new developments have progressed that allow clinicians to treat or cure the symptoms faster and safer.

Healthcare professionals and executives continue to push the envelope and invest in health research, which has continued to accelerate in the past decades. Although it is impossible to discover everything or have a breakthrough all at once, there will always be new discoveries and ways to augment healthcare through research. There are technicians in labs across the world pouring over research data to advance medical research and find innovative discoveries made every day and that is a terrific thing for healthcare in the medical research field.