Advances in science
Advances in science may lead to disparities to access and affordability of the new advances by the members of the society. For example, the latest technologies and approaches for treating and curing particular diseases often customized for each individual always have a high cost associated with acquiring and accessing them. This will make only the wealthier people in the society to afford and access them disadvantaging the poor. This leads to social inequalities and stratification in society because the latest advancements in health sciences are primarily available only for the richer members of society. As individuals with little income in the society cannot afford the quality and expensive drugs, they turn to cheaper and ineffective offers which may be counterfeit medicines. This affects the poor because the medications are likely to be ineffective for healing purposes. Besides, the counterfeit drugs may also be poisonous, causing harm to their health and deteriorates their immunity. The affordability and access of advanced medicine may influence other Medicine Production companies to produce ineffective products to the society because of competition. Interpolating this phenomenon globally, wealthier countries may benefit from advances and improvements in healthcare because they can comfortably afford advances to their citizens. This would be unaffordable to less developed countries because of lack of funds and credit facilities to afford them.
The advances in health sciences have an impact on the workforce. The new advances in science and technology require a different set of personnel and skills. The implications of advances in science has exponentially increased the rate of services in the health sector and the speed at which services are offered. It has helped workers to become more efficient, and operations that could take hours can take minutes. However, advances in science have replaced specific jobs which have displaced some workers or have led to the retraining of the workers. Robots may also replace some works. The use of medicinal machines has increased efficiency and performance by eliminating human errors. This has destroyed employments of unskilled personnel in the health sector. If personnel are unable to cope with the advancements, there are chances that they may face unemployment. Moreover, scientific advancement in health care needs to be governed and regulated to ensure that the new methods are safe. The governments should make sure that that technology is available and affordable to its larger population, not a subset of privileged individuals in the country. The adoption of new advancements may differ by country due to the belief systems and cultural norms that may affect the approach given to the advancements by the locals.
The advancement in science may also affect antibiotic development through resistance. There is less production of antibiotics to counter high priority pathogens. According to the World Health Organization, the antibiotics produced are innovative. Doctors have prescribed antibiotics with situations that have symptoms of bacterial infection which later affects the immune system of the patients to resist antibiotics. A microbial resistance from an individual may affect people worldwide. The advance in genetically modified plants has also resulted in antibiotic resistance. The antibiotic resistance gene that is sometimes used in genetically modified plants transfers the resistance genes to humans through Horizontal Gene Transfer. Antibiotic resistance can affect patients who have never had an infection with a resistant organism because of the increasing rates of resistance in pathogens. The resistance may lead to higher medical costs to patients, prolonged stay in hospitals and increased mortality rate. Infections caused by antibiotic resistance may lead to microbiological unfitness and antimicrobial therapy. The diseases caused by antibiotics resistance require toxic treatment that can lead to adverse effects. Patients who use colistin for pseudomonas infections have a high risk of renal dysfunction.
Technological advance in science has also led to genome editing. This is the genetic modification of plants and animals. Social adoptions of some genetically modified products have been modified with the pesticides which have fatal effects on human health. As the newer generation becomes more familiar with the concept of genetically modified products, they will advance more using hazardous components that affect human life. Besides, genetic cloning of pets has raised a lot of concern due to advancement in science. Cloning of pets has concerns in the relation of treating host animals associating to the age of the genome used. Even though it is done ethically, it is important to note legal regulation and scientific peer oversight when conducting cloning. Genetically modified foods contain oxalic acid and phototoxic psoralens in celery that causes difficulty in breathing to coma and cermatitis and sunburn that may cause skin cancer, respectively. These modifications are dangerous because they are irreversible e in humans. These genetically modified implications have unpredictable effects on human evolution. The recorded gene that is passed from generation to generation may cause different genotypes in human, which may be resistant to some diseases. In the case of human gene modification, the negative genes hinder scientific research by influencing the power of evolution.