Regenerative Medicine for Kidneys
I have written a number of articles here about regenerative medicine. The reason I think the topic is so important is 115,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving transplant. Another person is added to the waiting list every 10 minutes. Twenty-two people die each day because the organ they need is not donated in time. One organ, eye, and […]
Ridgefield Library: It’s All About Attitude with John Patrick
The Ridgefield Library is pleased to have author John Patrick back for his fourth visit. The lively talk, called It’s All About Attitude, will be at 7PM on Thursday, April 5. John believes many opportunities and problems have their roots in attitude. He also believes the solutions and ways forward are based on attitude. In his revealing talk, […]
Gene-editing Gets Major Funding
Last year, I wrote about a team of Chinese scientists having received ethical approval to perform a clinical trial of gene-editing. The goal was to test whether gene-editing may be a potential cure for cancer. The technology used for the trial is called CRISPR/Cas9, not exactly a household name. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Cas9 stands for […]
Big Changes Coming to Healthcare
Last week, the new Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Alex Azar, said, “Change is possible, change is necessary, and change is coming.” I hope so. Change is desperately needed. It remains to be seen if the federal government can make the changes needed and make them fast enough. The biggest barrier is Congress. HHS […]
Home Attitude with Skip Prichard
Skip Prichard is President and CEO of OCLC, a global nonprofit computer library service and research organization. He is also the author of newly published The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future. Skip was giving a speech in Edinburgh, Scotland recently and, as shown above, he made some remarks about my new book, Home […]
