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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
