Throughout this issue, such rumblings of revolution in healthcare are louder than ever.

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Discoveries of the next 25 years could make “Some of the biggest medical discoveries … in the last 25 years — everything from Viagra to laser vision correction … seem like relics,” writes CNN’s Matt Sloane. He goes on to mention robots that will “travel through your bloodstream to repair what ails you” and pharmacogenomic “superdrugs” tailored to the individual’s genome. In noting that “Some of these technologies are already here,” he highlights a point the Digest is always at pains to show.

Winning the War on Cancer

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The National Cancer Institute reported in December that while the rate of cancer cases diagnosed in the United States has stabilized, the rate of death from cancer continues to decline, including for the four most common types of cancer — prostate, breast, lung and colorectal. The stabilization resulted from active cancer prevention behavior by the public and by the high use of screening tests to detect cancers early. NCI Director Andrew von Eschenbach said he is convinced “that we are poised to make dramatic gains against cancer in the near future.”