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.
When speech recognition software arrived years ago, it was revolutionary. But now machine learning software can translate brain waves into complete sentences with an error rate of just three percent. For years, scientists tried translating brain waves into sentences through a focus on individual words but they had high error rates... More »
How can glacial ice in the Swiss Alps help us understand English medieval economy? Sounds strange but in the ice are elements such as lead which was heavily used in the economy. They cut a core from the Swiss glacier about eighty yards long and contains two millennia of fallout from events such as volcanic eruptions, dust storms and lead pollution... More »
Have you ever seen anyone’s hair suddenly go grey or white? It can happen to survivors of serious illness or a life-altering shock. I used to think that only happened in movies. A new study makes the connection to our sympathetic nervous system which is also our fight or flight response. It’s a release of hormones that increases our alertness and heart rate so we’re ready to act. What does this have to do with hair?... More »
