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Breath from salt : a deadly genetic disease, a new era in science, and the patients and families who changed medicine forever / Bijal P. Trivedi.
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- ISBN: 9781948836371
- ISBN: 1948836378
- Physical Description: xviii, 558 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2020]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-540) and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Science writer Bijal P. Trivedi gives a comprehensive look at cystic fibrosis, from its late 1930s discovery to the recent development of breakthrough treatments for 90% of patients, and the way treatments for the previously fatal disease are opening the door for curing other life-threatening conditions"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis > Treatment. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | 616.372 T739b (Text) | 31307024441414 | Non Fiction | Available | - |
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Breath from Salt : A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
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Breath from Salt : A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | p. xv | |
| Part 1 | ||
| 1 | Hello, Joey 1974 | p. 3 |
| 2 | The Treatment Plan 1974 | p. 11 |
| 3 | Case 44: Babies Hospital, New York City 1935 | p. 17 |
| 4 | A New Disease 1936-1937 | p. 23 |
| 5 | An Equal Opportunity Disease 1938-1942 | p. 28 |
| 6 | Christmas Homecoming 1974-1977 | p. 34 |
| 7 | The Sweat Test 1943-1960 | p. 45 |
| 8 | A Tribe of Desperate Parents 1950-1955 | p. 55 |
| 9 | Lessons from Polio 1955-1960 | p. 64 |
| 10 | The Registry 1960-1966 | p. 72 |
| 11 | The Therapist 1977 | p. 80 |
| 12 | A Disease in Search of Ideas 1964-1980 | p. 85 |
| 13 | The Hitman Cometh 1979-1982 | p. 97 |
| 14 | Salt and Water 1970-1981 | p. 104 |
| 15 | Salty Boy 1981-1983 | p. 112 |
| 16 | Birth of an Advocate 1984 | p. 123 |
| 17 | Out of Many, One 1978-1984 | p. 129 |
| Part 2 | ||
| 18 | The Gene Hunters 1980-1984 | p. 139 |
| 19 | Lucky Number Seven 1984-1985 | p. 149 |
| 20 | Kate 1986 | p. 160 |
| 21 | To Screen or Not to Screen Newborns 1985 | p. 166 |
| 22 | Michigan 1985 | p. 172 |
| 23 | Joey's Long Goodbye 1986 | p. 185 |
| 24 | Mad Pursuit 1987 | p. 191 |
| 25 | The Gene 1989 | p. 206 |
| 26 | Runny, Like Water 1989-1994 | p. 214 |
| 27 | Venture Philanthropy-Funding Drug Development 1977-1999 | p. 224 |
| 28 | The Gene if the Medicine 1989-1991 | p. 236 |
| 29 | Transforming the Lungs 1992-1993 | p. 247 |
| 30 | First-in-Human Trials 1993-1995 | p. 253 |
| 31 | The Beall Curve 1996-1997 | p. 264 |
| Part 3 | ||
| 32 | The Joey Fund 1989-1999 | p. 275 |
| 33 | A Network for Developing Therapeutic Drugs 1997-1998 | p. 283 |
| 34 | Aurora 1998-1999 | p. 291 |
| 35 | The Gates Open 1987-2000 | p. 307 |
| 36 | A Tale of Four Families-CF in the New Millennium 1999-2005 | p. 318 |
| 37 | The Takeover 2001 | p. 327 |
| 38 | Getting the Band Together 2001-2003 | p. 339 |
| 39 | Pay to Play 2002-2004 | p. 354 |
| 40 | Molecular Architects of Vertex West 2004-2005 | p. 363 |
| 41 | Rat to Man 2003-2004 | p. 371 |
| 42 | A Christmas Gift 2004-2005 | p. 379 |
| 43 | The Lucky Four 2005-2007 | p. 387 |
| 44 | The Doorman Launches the Era of Genetic Medicine 2007-2008 | p. 395 |
| 45 | Disruption Fall 2008 | p. 406 |
| 46 | Tasting Like Average People 2010-2012 | p. 411 |
| 47 | Milestones to a Cure 2004-2015 | p. 425 |
| 48 | Tackling the Common Mutation 2004-2013 | p. 431 |
| 49 | What Mutation Are You? 2013-2014 | p. 441 |
| 50 | The Mother of All Deals 2014 | p. 447 |
| 51 | Very Personal Clinical Trials 2012-2017 | p. 453 |
| 52 | The Triple 2015-2017 | p. 462 |
| 53 | The Home Stretch 2018 | p. 471 |
| 54 | The Leftovers 2015-2020 | p. 477 |
| 55 | A New Generation 2017-2020 | p. 487 |
| Epilogue 2019-2020 | p. 495 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 500 | |
| History of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and CF Science and Drug Discovery | p. 506 | |
| Life Expectancy of Cystic Fibrosis Patients, 1940-2017 | p. 510 | |
| Endnotes | p. 511 | |
| Index | p. 541 | |
| About the Author | p. 558 |
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