[Mvandenbergh]

In your lifetime (probably) we've developed and widely deployed the first human cancer vaccine among other things.

I was born in 1985, the year that AZT (the first effective anti-HIV drug) was patented, since then we've developed a whole spectrum of anti-retroviral drugs and turned HIV from a death sentence to an unpleasant chronic illness. The advances in anti hepatitis drugs are similarly enormous.

If you're over 20, then basically any non-generic drug sold in the US was developed in your life-time.