Revolutionary Therapies: How the California Stem Cell Program Saved Lives, Eased Suffering - And Changed the Face of Medicine Forever (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811213281)

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)

Author: Don C. Reed
ISBN-10: 9811213283
ISBN-13: 9789811213281
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2020
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d