"Medical breakthroughs" refers to significant discoveries or advances in the field of medicine that bring about major improvements in the understanding, treatment, prevention, or cure of diseases and disorders. Full definition
The reason he did not is one of the most important medical breakthroughs in modern history, and it's why there are so many dogs as family pets around the world today. (cesarsway.com)
TIME magazine ranked his rapid genome diagnosis one of the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2012. (agbt.org)
Such an approach «gives us one of the greatest opportunities for new medical breakthroughs that we have ever seen,» he added. (sciencemag.org)