In the past 30 years have you heard of any medical innovation or drugs coming from anywhere other than the US?
Of course the MRI machine was itself invented in the US
I have no way of judging the value of their respective contributions to the field, but I do know that the Nobel prize for magnetic resonance imaging didn't even go to Damadian, but was instead shared by a different American and a Brit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phys... (2003)
The development of the MRI machine falls a little outside this 30 year window, but at almost exactly the same time that IVF was being developed in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brown
Of course the MRI machine was itself invented in the US
I have no way of judging the value of their respective contributions to the field, but I do know that the Nobel prize for magnetic resonance imaging didn't even go to Damadian, but was instead shared by a different American and a Brit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phys... (2003)
The development of the MRI machine falls a little outside this 30 year window, but at almost exactly the same time that IVF was being developed in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brown
For more recent innovation, how about cloning? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29