Top 10 medical breakthroughs

Contributed by Alice Park - Published 25 January 2010

The following is a list of the top 10 medical breakthroughs from 2009.

1. New mammography guidelines It usually takes a Washington scandal to put the discussion of women's breasts on political agendas, but in November it was a routine update of breast-cancer-screening guidelines by a government panel of medical advisers that stirred up a furor. Based on new…

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