A Cure for HIV
Week of August 12
An infection with HIV isn’t the death sentence it was forty years ago. But without the powerful anti-retroviral drugs keeping the virus from replicating, a patient develops AIDS which does kill...More »
Science...
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.
Betrayed By Your Skin
Week of August 5
Imagine a skin condition that leaves blisters when a new mom holds her baby. And even a walk to the mailbox is excruciating from the friction to her feet. That’s Grace, a New Zealand woman with epidermolytic hyperkeratosis or EH. It’s the abnormal growth of a protein in the skin that makes its cells fragile... More »
The Woman Who First Pictured DNA
Week of July 29
A newspaper headline in 1939 declared “Woman Scientist Explains” when talking about Florence Bell because there were so few of them. The thing is Bell deserved the accolade, regardless of whether she was a man or woman. She was the first to take an image of our DNA using a technology called x-ray crystallography... More »
