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Fighting Multiple Chronic Conditions
By Don C. Reed First, a seeming digression. Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, is based on a true story. Hemingway was on a fishing trip off Cuba, when he heard about the r/l fisherman’s epic battle against a giant marlin. After he had killed...
MUOTRI’S ROBOT: The California Stem Cell Program vs. Autism
By Don C. Reed, author, “CALIFORNIA’S WAR ON CHRONIC DISEASE “Chronic diseases are defined… as conditions that last 1 year or more… they are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States… (as well as the) leading drivers of the nation’s $3.8 trillion...
STROKE: What It Is, and How California is Fighting Back
by Don C. Reed, author “CALIFORNIA’S WAR ON CHRONIC DISEASE, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023 My stroke was a subtraction, a lessening of mental and physical abilities. I heard a soft pop, experienced a slight headache, and — and this was strange — I had to...
SPINA BIFIDA PARALYSIS, AND THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM
By Don C. Reed People ask: what has the California stem cell program done with the money entrusted to it? Here is one example. As the father of a paralyzed young man*, I sit up straight if someone mentions a possible cure for any kind of paralysis. The most common...
To Paul Berg: in Memory
To Paul Berg: in Memoryby Don C. ReedAn old poem, partly remembered: “A tree is fallen, there is a gap against the sky.”Stanford’s great champion Paul Berg has died.Others are better equipped to understand and share his scientific contribution, how his Nobel...
To Paul Berg: in Memory
To Paul Berg: in Memoryby Don C. ReedAn old poem, partly remembered: “A tree is fallen, there is a gap against the sky.”Stanford’s great champion Paul Berg has died.Others are better equipped to understand and share his scientific contribution, how his Nobel...
To Paul Berg: in Memory
by Don C. Reed An old poem, partly remembered: “A tree is fallen, there is a gap against the sky.” Stanford’s great champion Paul Berg has died. Others are better equipped to understand and share his scientific contribution, how his Nobel Prize-winning work with...
KEVIN MCCORMACK: the Voice of CIRM
In one of life’s great cruelties, Kevin McCormack was taken from us; I imagine he would not like it, if we kicked up too much of a fuss. He might not wish to hear, I suppose, about tears shed on his behalf, He might prefer we lift a glass, remembering him with a...
ON HERSCHEL WALKER: A Patient Advocate’s Perspective
By Don C. Reed Should Herschel Walker, a vocal enemy of science, become Georgia’s next United States Senator? As a patient advocate for several decades, I hope not. It is not a question of Walker’s politics, to which he is entitled; but the man does not appear to know...
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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...