Medical research is a crucial area in science. There are thousands of diseases and impairing medical conditions that affect the quality of life for more than half of the human population. With the growing field of technology and an ever-expanding knowledge in biochemical sciences, medical research can lead to very beneficial outcomes for the world. Continuous investment of time and resources into this research can help find solutions or cures to diseases such as Alzheimer's or Huntington's, both neurodegenerative conditions that affect a large portion of the population. Further, the rise of microbial resistance to antibiotics and vaccines is another imperative and current issue that even the World Health Organization has expressed concern about. If the same antibiotics, vaccines, and antimicrobial agents are used on organisms that evolve and adapt fairly quickly to them, efforts will eventually be exhausted and the microbes will have developed enough tolerance and resistance to them, thus becoming ineffective. Medical research aims to prevent this from happening by creating new antimicrobial agents to fight harmful organisms that pose a threat to life. A prime example of this is the Ebola outbreak. Those treated successfully are the result of medical research.
