I had planned that our next story would be about ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. But I must hold up on that for a week or so—I called some people doing amazing work on it, and I want to interview them first. Instead, let’s take a trip to the Valley of Death. In the world of
Imagine if you went home from work and found one of your family members—your wife, husband, maybe your child—changing into somebody else? Sound like one of those 1950’s monster movies, “I Married a Monster from Outer Space”? Unfortunately, this is grim reality. This year, one in ten thousand Americans will be diagnosed with Huntington’s disease
As a former professional diver for Marine World in Redwood City, California, I naturally love the animals of land and sea. It was a delight to find a little-known fact about Koko, a female gorilla who “speaks” with sign language. When Koko could not get pregnant, Stanford scientist Dr. Bertha Chen was called in to
Last year diabetes cost America nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars, but nobody got well. Fortunately, CIRM has an anti-diabetes weapon coming.
That silent hurricane is chronic disease. Its winds will never subside, its torrential blasts will never stop; it is here forever—unless we cure it.
