{"product_id":"california-cures-paperback","title":"California Cures! - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReed Don C\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen years ago, America faced an epidemic of chronic disease: cancer, paralysis, blindness, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut California voters said \"YES!\" to a $3 billion stem cell research program: the awkwardly-named California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Born into battle, the scrappy little state agency was immediately blocked by three years of anti-science lawsuits -- but it defeated them all. And then?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quiet triumph. With a focused intensity like the Manhattan Project (but for peaceful purposes, not to build a bomb), scientists funded by CIRM took on the challenges: disease and disability called chronic: incurable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of connected stories, accurate though written to entertain, \"California Cures\" relates a war: science against disease, with lives on the line. Think what it means for a paralyzed young man to recover the use of his hands, or for a formerly-blind mother to see her teenaged children -- for the first time!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo you know the \"bubble-baby\" syndrome? Infants without a proper immune system typically die young; a common cold can kill. But for eighteen babies in a stem cell clinical trial, a different future: they were cured of their disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one can predict the pace of science, nor say when cures will come; but California is bringing the fight. The reader will meet the scientists involved, the women and men behind the microscope, and share their struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \"California Cures\" is a call for action. Washington may argue about the expense of health care (and who will get it), but California works to bring down the mountain of medical debt: stem cell therapies to ease suffering, and save lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill California build on success -- and invest $5 billion more in stem cell research?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We have the momentum\", says author Don C Reed, \"We dare not stop short. Chronic disease threatens everyone -- we are fighting for your family, and mine!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290638495993,"sku":"9789813270381","price":77.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/vtVrMjOgXg9789813270381.webp?v=1776289005","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/california-cures-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}