Medical Discovery News

02/25/2022

Maybe you know someone who has gotten the Pfizer COVID pill. It's the first one given emergency approval by the FDA. PAXLOVID disrupts the virus's ability to replicate within the human cell and is nearly ninety percent effective at preventing hospitalization. Merck also has a pill approved but is just thirty-three percent effective.

https://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/797-covidpill.html

01/31/2022

Introducing Illumina SciCom

Get excited! We are launching the Illumina SciCom website : www.illuminaScicom.com

We offer longer versions of our stories and podcasts that cover a wide range of biomedical topics that you have come to expect from Medical Discovery News. Hear about the latest advances in biomedical science that will become the medicine of tomorrow. These are all delivered in plain language, always with a little fun, but watch out! You may just learn something.

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01/28/2022

I always say I'd love to live to be 100 but only if I remained healthy enough to enjoy it. And today, that's more likely than 30 years ago. Over that time, the number of centenarians have grown by two thirds in this country. It's still a small number at about 55,000, but we're obviously doing something right!

http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/793-livelong.html

10/29/2021

The Chernobyl explosion is the worst nuclear accident on record. The two massive explosions blew four hundred times the amount of radiation from the Hiroshima bomb into the air. Its impact is still being uncovered.

http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/780-chernobyl.html

10/15/2021

We all get the warning, brush your teeth or lose them forever because once adult teeth come in, we're done growing any more. Why is that? And can we change this so that lost teeth can be regrown. New research shows one day that looks likely.

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/778-dentures.html

10/01/2021

When you mom gives you chicken soup, it's a wisdom of the ages, a millennium, because that's how long healers have believed it can treat the common cold. But is this supported by science?

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/776-chickensoup.html

09/27/2021

When I lived in Texas, I didn't worry much about Lyme disease. Yeah, well not anymore Bubba, you're now in tick country up there in Connecticut. Yep, my wife and I have to do a tick check even after working in the yard.

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/775-lyme.html

09/11/2021

It's a good thing we're young at heart because not much else is young, especially our joints! Don't try to squat or you won't get back up. So, imagine the joints of athletes. Their old injuries usually come back as osteoarthritis or OA. When it becomes severe, joint replacement is the only option but there are now technologies that can regrow the cartilage lost in OA.

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/773-cartilage.html

09/03/2021

Imagine a vaccine made specifically for you and for fighting a deadly cancer. Sounds unlikely and yet one is being developed for Melanoma called NeoVax.

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/772-cancer.html

08/27/2021

Alexa - tell me, do I have COVID-nineteen? Siri - am I developing dementia? Well, I can tell you that, Norbert! Ha! The thing is Dave, this is not a stretch. For the past decade, biotech companies have been developing voice analysis technology that can detect disease. And it's almost here! It's like I'm living in a Star Trek episode watching this crazy innovation move into reality.

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/771-disease.html

08/20/2021

What does it take to restore the sight of a blind man? Not a miracle - just a one-hour operation. That's what happened to a seventy-year-old man with bilateral corneal blindness after getting a new synthetic corneal transplant.

https://medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/770-see.html

08/11/2021

Through one scientist's dedication, an entire field of medicine began. Dr. Dan Kastner discovered the causes of over a dozen autoinflammatory disorders. These are rare inherited disorders that cause chronic fevers and inflammation of the skin, joints and membranes that cover organs.

http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com/shows/769-autoimmune.html