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ARMY FOR CURES
By Don C. Reed Medical researchers save lives, heal wounds, and ease suffering—but they cannot do their work without major financial backup. To develop useful therapies and cures, scientists depend on the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest source of...
STROKE: Why the World Needs Cure
By Don C. Reed Note: the author is neither scientist nor physician. Material cited is personal opinion or public documents. No connection is implied with cited individuals. Half asleep in bed, I woke to a soft popping noise in my head. It had a bizarre side effect: I...
OF CANCER, AND THE COST OF CHRONIC DISEASE
By Don C. Reed For all who suffer chronic (long-lasting or incurable) disease, there is not only the price of pain, but also the financial expense, which can be enormous. For example, cancer greatly afflicted my family. My mother died at age 52 from breast cancer; my...
THE “SAVE ACT” — THREE WORDS AND A POLITCAL NIGHTMARE?
By Don C. Reed What if Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Presidency — for the next fifty years? For me, it would be a nightmare, but unfortunately, not a fantasy. It could be made grim reality by a law called the SAFE Act....
The Trump “SAVE Act”: or, If Crocodiles were Beautiful
By Don C. ReedIn Lake Burundi, Africa. there lives a crocodile whom the locals call Gustave. (1)About twenty feet long and weighing an estimated one ton, it is said to have killed three hundred people. About the only good thing you can say for Gustave is that he is...
The Trump — Endorsed “SAVE Act”: or, If Crocodiles were Beautiful
By Don C. ReedIn Lake Burundi, Africa. there lives a crocodile whom the locals call Gustave. (1)About twenty feet long and weighing an estimated one ton, it is said to have killed three hundred people. About the only good thing you can say for Gustave is that he is...
The Trump “SAVE Act”: or, if Crocodiles were Beautiful
By Don C. Reed In Lake Burundi, Africa, there lives a crocodile whom the locals call Gustave. (1) Twenty feet long and weighing an estimated two thousand pounds, it is said to have killed between two and three hundred people. The only good thing you can say about...
THE ANTI-DEMOCRAT LAW
By Don C. Reed In World War Two Germany, if the Nazis were arresting you, they would say, “Ausweiss, bitte!” , meaning “Papers, please!” ) If you had the wrong ones, they would drag you off, or worse. The mis-named “SAVE America Act” is a voter suppression bill: very...
Recommending Paul Knoepfler
by Don C. Reed There are some people so valuable I wish the world could put a magic shield around them, to provide for their needs and protect them from harm. One such person is Paul Knoepfler, a professor at UC Davis School of Medicine. His lab focuses on the roles...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023