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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:
  • 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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