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