 
About 300,000 people in the United States get a
new lease on life every year by undergoing coronary bypass surgery. It can
prevent a heart attack by restoring healthy blood flow through clogged arteries
in the heart. The World Health Organization lists cimetidine (Tagamet) as one of
the world’s most essential drugs. It keeps the stomach from producing too much
acid, which can cause serious medical problems. The Heimlich Maneuver has saved
the lives of 50,000 people who were choking on food and other objects.
All those medical advances have one thing in
common. They are from Ohio, like other important ways of preventing, diagnosing,
and treating disease.
Ohioans also have been leaders in scientific research and innovation in other
fields. Research by Ohioan Albert A. Michelson and his colleague Edward William
Morley paved the way for Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Battelle, for
instance, played a key role in developing the Xerox process for making
photocopies. It also pioneered contract research with governmental and
industrial sponsors as a new way of doing research.
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Surgery
Pioneer
Michelson-Morley
Experiment
Applying
X-Rays in Medicine
General
Anesthesia Pioneer
Heimlich
Maneuver
First Dental
School
Polio Vaccine
Production
Genetic
Engineering Landmark
Ohio Name on
the Scale
Artificial
Kidney Machine Inventor
Battelle
Oral Polio
Vaccine Namesake
First Female
MD
First
Genetics Doctorate
Tagamet is
From Ohio