| Description |
xxiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Preparing for Today's Challenges -- Setting the Stage -- Shaping My Beliefs: Family and Community -- College and the Real World -- Clinical Trials -- Every Parent's Fear -- Life Gets in the Way -- No Longer Just a Donor -- "You Have Cancer" -- A New Type of Organization -- Getting Up to Speed -- Focus on the Young -- Speeding the Search -- The March of Progress -- Expanding the Mission -- Marching for Progress -- Home Runs for Cures -- The New Wonder Drug: Prevention -- What Are the Alternatives? -- FasterCures -- Innovate to Accelerate -- Public Health -- Priorities for the Future -- COVID and Its Lessons -- Data and Technology -- Our Healthier Future -- The Blessing of Meaningful Lives. |
| Summary |
"Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future. What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean your teeth, or if a single vaccine could protect you against multiple viruses, or if gene editing could eliminate many birth defects and slow the aging process? Mike Milken believes these, and many other advances, are within reach. Beginning with a description of the 1950s civilization and culture that helped shape Milken's early views, Faster Cures traces the life-extending acceleration of progress in medical research, public health, and clinical treatments over the seven decades since Milken’s childhood -- and shows how he helped transform the process of developing disease cures. Among many examples, he recognized the promise of immunology more than twenty-five years ago and provided crucial support for the emergence of immunotherapy as a powerful life-saving treatment. Detailing his unique personal journey from a curious boy with an insatiable thirst for knowledge to his storied careers in finance and health, this book focuses on the events that made Milken what Fortune magazine called “The Man Who Changed Medicine.” The combined influences of social upheaval in the 1960s and family medical crises in the 1970s propelled him to dual quests on Wall Street and in medical research. Known worldwide as a legendary financier, philanthropist, medical research innovator, and public health advocate, Milken tells fascinating anecdotes and explains his inspiring crusade to accelerate cures and treatments so that more people around the world can live longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives"-- Publisher. |
| Subject |
Milken, Michael.
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Milken, Michael -- Health.
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Prostate -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Cancer -- Research -- United States -- Finance.
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Medicine -- Research -- United States -- Finance.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Geoffrey E., author.
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| ISBN |
9780063260214 (hc.) |
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0063260212 (hc.) |
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