California Cures!: How the California Stem Cell Program is Fighting Your Incurable Disease! - Softcover

Don C Reed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9813270381 ISBN 13: 9789813270381

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2018

Synopsis

Thirteen years ago, America faced an epidemic of chronic disease: cancer, paralysis, blindness, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and more.

But California voters said ""YES!"" to a $3 billion stem cell research program: the awkwardly-named California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Born into battle, the scrappy little state agency was immediately blocked by three years of anti-science lawsuits — but it defeated them all. And then?

A quiet triumph. With a focused intensity like the Manhattan Project (but for peaceful purposes, not to build a bomb), scientists funded by CIRM took on the challenges: disease and disability called chronic: incurable.

In a series of connected stories, accurate though written to entertain, ""California Cures"" relates a war: science against disease, with lives on the line. Think what it means for a paralyzed young man to recover the use of his hands, or for a formerly-blind mother to see her teenaged children — for the first time!

Do you know the ""bubble-baby"" syndrome? Infants without a proper immune system typically die young; a common cold can kill. But for eighteen babies in a stem cell clinical trial, a different future: they were cured of their disease.

No one can predict the pace of science, nor say when cures will come; but California is bringing the fight. The reader will meet the scientists involved, the women and men behind the microscope, and share their struggle.

Above all, ""California Cures"" is a call for action. Washington may argue about the expense of health care (and who will get it), but California works to bring down the mountain of medical debt: stem cell therapies to ease suffering, and save lives.

Will California build on success — and invest $5 billion more in stem cell research?

""We have the momentum"", says author Don C Reed, ""We dare not stop short. Chronic disease threatens everyone — we are fighting for your family, and mine!""

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Review

An engrossing read that is hard to put down and packed with insights blend history and the latest research with broader examination of stem cell potentials to change not only health conditions, but society as a whole. No collection covering stem cell advancements should be without this hard-hitting examination that uses California's results as a foundation for considering stem cell's special promises and powerful obstacles to success. --Midwestern Book Review

As someone who has actively worked in the stem cell field for 20 years, this book provides very nice coverage of diverse aspects of how stem cell research and therapies can impact our lives in so many ways. Written in an easy-to-understand style with many interesting personnel anecdotes from someone who has been in the trenches of the many stem cell battles. Recommended for scientists and non-scientists alike. --Professor Dan Kaufman, University of California-San Diego

Open California Cures! at random and be drawn in immediately to Don Reeds compelling story-telling; before long, you will have read the entire book! Don gives a personal, eye-witness account of the hard work and determination of extraordinary leaders, countless patients and those who love them dont have to give up hope when seemingly-intractable disease strikes. The California Stem Cell Program is unique just like Don Reed and is changing the world. --Mary Wolley, President and CEO, Research!America

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813270381
• ISBN 13: 9789813270381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352