HEARING LOSS vs. THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: Disease-a-Week Challenge #9 By Don C. Reed Think for a moment about your favorite sounds… Music, perhaps, like the young Julie Andrews singing “I Could Have Danced All Night” from MY FAIR LADY; or the laughter of...

BRAIN TUMORS vs. CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: Disease-a-Week Challenge #8 By Don C. Reed When Vice President Joe Biden stood beside the coffin of his son Beau, it seemed the whole world took a breath. Every parent knew what he must be feeling: one of the most...

KNOW YOUR DISABILITY RIGHTS! Please share this extremely important note from long-term patient-rights advocate Bill Remak and Liz Helms: The California Chronic Care Coalition (CCCC) is launching a website to educate patients about their rights and help them get to the...

BONE FRACTURE vs. THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: Disease-a-week Challenge #7 By Don C. Reed In 1978, my brother David Reed was driving his motorcycle up a winding mountain road near Santa Cruz, California, when a truck came around the other side. ”I smashed into...

BLINDNESS vs. THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: Disease-a-week Challenge #6 by Don C. Reed When I was ten I fell on a bamboo stick, which penetrated my right eye. The doctor taped a patch over it and said that was all he could do, we would just have to wait and see....

DISEASE-A-WEEK CHALLENGE  #5: The California Stem Cell Program vs. Autism by Don C. Reed Before I met the boy who liked Stanford too much, I knew almost nothing about autism. I had seen the movie, RAINMAN, in which Dustin Hoffman played an autistic person.  He seemed...

DISEASE-A-WEEK CHALLENGE #5: The California Stem Cell Program vs. Autism by Don C. Reed Before I met the boy who liked Stanford too much, I knew almost nothing about autism. I had seen the movie, RAINMAN, in which Dustin Hoffman played an autistic person. He seemed...

Huffington Post picks up arthritis stem cell challenge article! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-c-reed/diseaseaweek-challenge-4-_b_7584406.html