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LAST SECONDS BEFORE…
By Don C. Reed Ticktock, ticktock, etcetera, etcetera—my glow-in-the-dark clock does its duty, marking the passage of time. In a few short hours, it will be voting time everywhere - for most of the country it already is. Question: do you have a favorite candidate?...
FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU LOVE!
By Don C. Reed Think of something you love: what first leaps into your mind? For me, it is the ocean. I love to soar almost weightless to the seafloor, then effortlessly return, in beams of underwater sun. Once the sand moved, and a cream-colored triangular beast—a...
SAVING THE CLINICAL TRIALS
By Don C. Reed Imagine if you had an incurable disease. The doctors gave you no hope, saying there was little to be done, and you should expect a foreshortened life. But then came some good luck: you were selected for a clinical trial, testing a new therapy. This...
CLEANING SUGGESTIONS FOR AN ALGID POOL
By Don C. Reed The green waters of the Lincoln pool controversy brought back 15 years of memories. From 1972-86, I was a scuba diver for Marine World, an aquarium zoo in Northern California. I scrubbed algae off the walls and windows of the giant aquarium tanks....
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...
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