
Revolutionary Therapies
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For author Don C Reed, father of a paralyzed son, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the greatest medical advance since penicillin.REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES is Reed's third book about the $3 billion stem cell program.Voted into law in November 2004, CIRM...Ещё
For author Don C Reed, father of a paralyzed son, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is the greatest medical advance since penicillin.REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES is Reed's third book about the $3 billion stem cell program.Voted into law in November 2004, CIRM is now running out of money.Should its funding be renewed? Thereby hangs a tale, or rather several dozen of them, for each of the book's 71 short chapters is framed by a yarn or vignette.The factual background is accurate, vetted by the scientists, but Reed's goal is clearly both entertainment and education.A favorite example is a little girl named Evie, imprisoned in a plastic bubble: her body's immune system did not work, and she would die outside. She joined a CIRM clinical trial … Imagine how Evie's parents felt — when she got well.Some stories are comical, like 'How Stem Cell Research Saved My Car'; others surprising, like the comparison between politics and the giant crocodile Gustave; others are tragic or inspiring: but all point to this: More than 100 million Americans suffer chronic disease, causing mountains of medical debt — and the only way to reduce that expense ($3 trillion last year) — is cure.Related Link(s)Contents:
Readership: Stem cell researchers; patient advocates, students, scientists in biomed field, parents of children with disabilities, soldiers with injuries; Parkinson's, diabetes and spinal cord injury survivors, fundraisers for medical causes; for anyone with a chronic disease.Diabetes;Cancer;CIRM;Chronic Disease;Disability;Paralysis;Scientist;Rett;Cystic Fibrosis;Alpha Thalassemia;Bankruptcy; Donald Kohn;Elizabeth Warren;Neuropathy;Schizophrenia;Plague;Zika Virus;Huntington's;ALS;Blood;Parkinson's;Bridges Program;Scars;Sclerosis0Key Features:
- Introduction: The Odds Against the California Stem Cell Program
- The Silent Hurricane
- Uncle Ben's Kidneys
- Blindness for the Old
- So, You Want to be a Stem Cell Scientist?
- The One-Leg Placebo
- Can We Lower the Prices of Medicine and Therapies?
- 'Tesi': Or, How to Engineer an Intestine
- Fighting Rett Syndrome
- The Disease Which Caused a Revolution?
- Leader of the Board
- Hitting Yourself in the Chest
- The Cost of Doing Nothing
- The ATM Disease
- Preventing Medical Bankruptcy?
- New Babies, New Scientists
- Secrets for Free
- Speaking Before Those Who Oppose
- The First 500 Pounds — And Donald Kohn
- Why Fetal Cell Research Must be Allowed
- 'Told Your Child is Going to Die…'
- Flat Feet and Neuropathy
- Battling Schizophrenia
- Of Werewolves, Plague, and the Zika Virus
- Getting All the Cancer
- Two Bulldogs
- Other People's Pain: Fighting Bowel Disease
- Building Bone Density
- Money, Hope, and Huntington's
- A Better Rat?
- 'Tuesdays with Morrie': Battling ALS
- Punching at Parkinson's
- Arthritis Champions
- Marching for Science?
- Blood, Blood, Blood!
- Someone Who Gets Things Done
- The Voice of CIRM
- Adventures on Bridges: Humboldt State University
- Inside Gloria's Heart
- Fighting Beside Other Countries
- Jobs and New Money
- Scars: By Moray Eels and Other Causes
- Battling Duchenne
- In Which Stem Cell Research Saves My Car
- Should Scientists Run for Office?
- The Strangest Thing Inside My Head
- Of Crocodiles, and Politics
- Raja's Story
- To More Swiftly Heal a Broken Bone?
- Surprises, Awkward and Otherwise
- The Man with the Plan to Assassinate Cancer?
- Lung Cancer, and the Bent Cigarette
- Introducing Madame President
- Fighting Bladder Cancer
- Sickle Cell — And Insults?
- Two Diseases, One Therapy?
- Gloria at Home
- Of CIRM, and Buying My House
- Cooperation with the Capitol
- The Christmas Truce
- Alexander's Challenge
- The Smallest Miracle
- Interview with the Founder: Bob Klein
- The Big Bang Theory, CIRM, and a Dolphin Named Spock
- For My Son
- The ISSCR Adventure
- The Most Terrible Disease
- Body as Battlefield: Clinical Studies Funded by CIRM
- More Victims Than Five Kinds of Cancer?
- Vertigo, Chickens, and Maybe Great News
- A World without CIRM?
- What We Must Do
- Afterword
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Readership: Stem cell researchers; patient advocates, students, scientists in biomed field, parents of children with disabilities, soldiers with injuries; Parkinson's, diabetes and spinal cord injury survivors, fundraisers for medical causes; for anyone with a chronic disease.Diabetes;Cancer;CIRM;Chronic Disease;Disability;Paralysis;Scientist;Rett;Cystic Fibrosis;Alpha Thalassemia;Bankruptcy; Donald Kohn;Elizabeth Warren;Neuropathy;Schizophrenia;Plague;Zika Virus;Huntington's;ALS;Blood;Parkinson's;Bridges Program;Scars;Sclerosis0Key Features:
- Complex science told in a high school level vocabulary; brief interviews with many top stem cell scientists
- Makes clear the vital necessity for public investment in research
- Controversial topics (fetal cell research, etc.) detailed in non-threatening manner
- Ingram
- 9789811213304
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