You are just projecting the way you judge people onto everyone else.

If you are out for a 'perfect cure' in medicine, you are rarely ever going to get it.

However, what you are describing happens as a result of the fact that after these initial press releases (which are often misunderstood or misrepresented to be an 'wonder cure', when the researchers themselves never claimed as such), the wider public do not retain interest in a specific story, largely because there are millions of researchers around the world all working in many different fields producing exciting research all the time, resulting in multiple headlines of high impact every week.

But the reality is that medicine has moved forwards considerably, even in the last 2, 5 and 10 years, even if you feel that all these breakthroughs are going nowhere.

These breakthroughs do go somewhere, and often lead to improvements. It's just impossible for any one person to keep track of.

The fact we don't have an outright cure for many viral infections, cancers or neurodegenerative diseases doesn't mean that nothing is happening. The quality of life and life expectancy of many patients is increasing substantially every year.

>the wider public do not retain interest in a specific story

So, going back to this point from the start of my comment, if you are particularly interested in a specific story you can save its original research citation and then look up what articles cite it in the future, and future work by those authors, you will see often that parts of the research can be adapted into many other people's work, even if the original drug/idea doesn't make it to humans.

They are at highschool according to previous posts, so in this case, probably not.

It says more than 2000 year, not 2000 year.