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6. What prompted a national health service?
- Beveridge Report
- Mass deaths
- Shortage of workers due to illness
- Public protests
7. What battle was the first blood bank set up at?
- Battle of Arras
- Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Cambrai
- Battle of Ypres
8. How is the blood group of a person found out?
- Blood tests
- Family history
- Surgery
9. What was the first complete organ to be transplanted?
10. What is the structure of DNA?
- Double helix
- Rectangular
- Single helix
- Circular
11. What was the first successful cancer treatment that didn't use surgery?
- Targetted therapy
- Radiotherapy
- Chemotherapy
12. What year was robot-assisted surgery first introduced?
13. What year was the NHS established?
14. What are immunosuppressants used for?
- Stop the rejection of transplanted organs
- Curing bacterial infections
- Stoping the growth of viral infections
- Treatment for cancer
15. What compound stopped blood from clotting when stored?
- Calcium nitrate
- Sodium citrate
- Calcium citrate
- Sodium nitrate
16. When did smoking increase in popularity?
- 1920s
- World War One
- World War Two
- 1930s
17. By what percentage has the number of men smoking fallen between 1948 and 2010?
18. What government campaign was set up to combat excessive drinking?
- Movember
- Change4Life
- Drinkaware
- Jeans for Genes
19. What did Fleming identify?
- Magic Bullet
- Penicillin notatum
- DNA
- Blood groups
20. When were blood groups discovered?