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Chasing Hope: A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future

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After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a glimmer of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.

Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived teo bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs. After enduring decades of harsh treatments and invasive therapies, Cohen decided to stop living as a patient.

Then hope made a sudden, surprising reappearance. In 2002, Cohen and his wife, Meredith Vieira, hosted and chaired an adult stem cell conference at he Vatican, Scientist would be gathering in Rome to discuss stem cell therapy for autoimmune diseases such as MS. A believer in the power of denial and determination over faith and hope. Cohen was caught off guard by what he learned. Medical technology had advanced further and more quickly than Cohen had known. could there be a chance his health could improve? Could MS be cured? As Cohen took part in a pioneering stem cell protocol, he opened himself to the possibility of hope for the first time in his adult life.

Cohen's deep dive into the world of cutting-edge stem cell research and his journalistic investigation of hope includes interviews with doctors, scientists, and religious leaders, asa well as conversations with others living with chronic conditions, all with the goal of understanding a hope that is npth elusice and alluring.

As drily funny as it is emotionally vulnerable. Chasing Hope navigates the fascinating and ever-shanging intersection of illness and hope.

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926.1 COH c

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New York : Blue Rider Press., 2018

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xviii, 280 p.: ilus.; 21 cm

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English

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Person in Medical Science Biography/Biog

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Ed.1, 2018

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biography
medical

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