REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES (eBook)

How the California Stem Cell Program Saved Lives, Eased Suffering — and Changed the Face of Medicine Forever

Don C Reed (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
368 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-981-12-1330-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2020
• Verlagsort: SG
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Medizintechnik
• ISBN-10: 981-12-1330-5 / 9811213305
• ISBN-13: 978-981-12-1330-4 / 9789811213304