My wife Gloria tries to only use our home stairs twice daily: coming down in the morning, and climbing back up at night. You would understand why if you could look inside her knees. A healthy joint has an internal cushion of smooth white cartilage: Gloria’s is mostly gone. As a result, her leg bones
When you first speak to Rosie Barrero, it is difficult to believe she is blind. Her eyes follow you as you speak—but she is guided by hearing, not sight. As she puts it, “I cannot go outside the house by myself.” As a child, Rosie lost night vision, and was called “nearsighted” by a school nurse.
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.
Only a year ago, Lucas was a paraplegic. Now he's throwing the first pitch at a baseball game.
Meet Kris Boesen, one of the five previously paralyzed patients who saw increased mobility after participating in University of Southern California and Asterias Biotherapeutics’ human clinical trial.
