Don Reed's NEW BOOK - - "REVOLUTIONARY THERAPIES!"
How the California Stem Cell Program Saved Lives, Eased Suffering -
and Changed the Face of Medicine Forever
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, March 20th, 2020
Chronic diseasethreatens the world.
In America alone, more than 100 million children and adults suffer chronic (long-lasting or incurable) diseases. These are not empty statistics, but people we know, members of your family and mine...
Stem Cell Research Book Reveals People’s Struggles
Don Reed’s First Book
STEM CELL BATTLES
How Ordinary People Can Fight Back Against the Crushing Burden of Chronic Disease!
Don Reed’s Second Book
CALIFORNIA CURES!
How the California Stem Cell Research Program is Fighting Your Incurable Disease!
About Don Reed
STEM CELL BATTLES FOUNDER
Sometimes called the “Grandfather of Stem Cell Research Advocacy”, Don C. Reed was citizen sponsor of California’s Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999, named after his paralyzed son. Don was grassroots organizer for America’s first pro- stem cell research legislation,
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Benefit 65 of California Stem Cell Agency: THE MAN WITH THE PLAN TO ASSASSINATE CANCER?
By Don C. Reed It is said that when a person dies, his or her brain offers one last gift: highlights of its owner’s past. Favorite moments return, and images of beloved people. If that is true, I hope to see again my sister Patty, who died of leukemia. I miss her...
CIRM BENEFIT # 64: FIGHTING RETT SYDROME: The Woman Who Leaped Into the Sky
By Don C. Reed At the top of the ten meter platform, the young Chinese woman turned around, so her toes gripped the edge of the board, and her heels hung suspended over the blue square of water far below. She raised her arms, poised for one second, two…. Flexing...
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AGAINST THE PLAGUE: The California Stem Cell Program Fights Back
By Don C. Reed We cannot overestimate the stakes of the battle we are in. In America alone, approximately 70,000 children, women, and men have died from the COVID-19 virus—and nearly a million and a half are infected. — https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html#anchor_1586782138 At 74, I am a prime target for the coronavirus threat. Although fit and healthy at the […]
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WE FIGHT-BECAUSE SAVING LIVES CAN’T WAIT
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FROM A STEM CELL RESEARCHER
, Center for Regenerative Medicine Department of Chemical Physiology The Scripps Research Institute
Don Reed has been the most articulate voice of patient advocacy for stem cell therapies for 10 years. He has a gift for explaining the science to the public, and when he speaks, people listen.
DOUBLE LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT
, Chair/CEO California Hepatitis C Task Force, Board Member, California Chronic Care Coalition Double liver transplant recipient
Don Reed has shown the way in driving the inspiration and action for stem cell research—to change the course of health care for mankind. His book chronicles the incredible story of how a movement evolved in California and reverberated across America and around the world. Reading STEM CELL BATTLES will restore your faith in the ingenuity of people.
CONTINUING STRUGGLE
, Founder, Alliance for Aging Research; and former president Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR)
Don Reed’s book captures important history in the continuing struggle for rational and caring public policy grounded in sound science. Reed’s deeply personal account is a battlefield dispatch of a citizen-soldier in the political wars that confront the search for cures.
COLORFUL COMMENTARY
, M.D., former SVP of Research and Development,
A colorful commentary on the grand stem cell experiment in California – by someone who has been an advocate for, and worked with the agency from the very beginning
More Benefits of the California Stem Cell Program
Chronic Disease, the Invisible Hurricane
Benefit #2:
Defeating Diabetes?
Benefit #3:
Urinary Incontinence:
Benefit #4:
Challenging Huntington’s Disease:
Benefit #5:
Lowering Medical Costs:
Americans for Cures Foundation
Please visit Americans for Cures Foundation, the legacy non-profit which sprang from the campaign to pass Proposition 71, the California Stem Cells for Research and Cures Initiative. Led by Bob Klein, we are a nonpartisan, 501(c)3 organization. Our mission is to advocate on behalf of all who suffer chronic disease and injury, and who might benefit from stem cell research and therapies.