Biomedical Research – Ever Essential
Countless individuals, throughout centuries and millennia, have conducted biomedical research to the betterment of health in humans and animals.
Exactly when or how the natives of the Andes discovered that bark from the cinchona tree, dried and ground, could effectively reduce pain and fever is unknown.
As early as the 10th century, evidence exists of traditional healers using substances contained in the seeds and leaves of a weed, commonly known today as foxglove (digitalis), to improve circulation and reduce edema in heart patients.
Midwives in the middle-ages knew that a wheat fungus, ergot, stimulated labor and assisted in delivery in difficult cases.
Biomedical researchers today continue to carry on critical research, discovering and inventing life-saving and life-altering treatments and cures, for human and animal health.
What is Biomedical Research?
Why is Biomedical Research Necessary?
