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Recent Episodes

  • Reasons to Let Your Hair Go Natural

    Episode 938 Release 216

    As research has sought to answer why Black women suffer more maternal health complications, one link has now become clear: the regular use of hair straighteners used by 90 percent of Black women, over generations, often starting at young ages.

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    Space, It Changes You

    Episode 937 Release 215

    We're used to having our NASA astronauts be highly trained, but what about people like you and me? With commercial space travel now available, that's a reality. It raises the question of space travel's impact on human health. New studies reveal even short space trips take a toll on the body.

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    Cleaning Up Plastics with Microbial Help

    Episode 936 Release 215

    Microplastics and nanoplastics are literally everywhere and yet, we continue to produce 300 million tons of plastic every year and by 2060, that number will triple.

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    A Promising Male Contraceptive

    Episode 935 Release 215

    After decades of research, men could have their own version of birth control pills if this potential drug makes it to the market.

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    Another Cause of Alzheimers

    Episode 934 Release 215

    In 1906, a psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer described to a group of German physicians a peculiar patient he had been treating. The woman developed paranoia that progressed quickly, and that was the first description of what we now call Alzheimer's disease or AD, aptly named after him. After she died, Alzheimer did an autopsy and found abnormal patterns we now know as plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that may contribute to AD.

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Medicine is constantly advancing – that is a great thing about life in the 21st century. But it doesn’t just happen. Dedicated biomedical scientists are making discoveries that translate into those new medical advances.

Biomedical science is broad, encompassing everything from social science to microbiology, biochemistry, epidemiology, to structural biology and bioinformatics to name just a few areas. And, it can involve basic fundamental biology, the use of AI and chemistry to clinical studies that evaluate new medicines in patients.

No matter the research focus, the goal is always the same, to advance human health. It may take a few months, a few years or for fundamental science, a few decades. Few people make the connection that biomedical science is medicine and that biomedical scientists are working today on the medicine of tomorrow. Our weekly 500-word newspaper columns and 2-minute radio shows and podcasts provide insights into a broad range of biomedical science topics.

Medical Discovery News is dedicated to explaining discoveries in biomedical research and their promise for the future of medicine.

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