It permeates everyday life. Yet the understanding of advances in biomedical science is limited at best. Few people make the connection that biomedical science is medicine and that biomedical scientists are working today for the medicine of tomorrow. Our weekly five-hundred word newspaper column and two-minute radio show 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.
Each release is designed to stimulate listeners to think, question and appreciate how science affects their health as well as that of the rest of the world. We also delve into significant biomedical discoveries and portray how science (or the lack of it) has impacted health throughout history.
In science and medicine, we get excited when a new idea changes the way we’ve thought and that’s happening with cancer. We’re talking about the concept of sleeping cancer cells. And what’s astounding is that the healthy cells around them are keeping them asleep so they do not do harm... More »
When President Nixon declared a war on cancer 50 years ago, it rivaled the moon landing. Since then and $100 billion later, cancer deaths have been cut by a quarter...More »
For generations of us, whenever we hear the words “mRNA vaccines”, we’ll flash back to this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the term may one day bring as much promise to other pressing diseases... More »
