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Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every typefrom Alzheimers and Parkinsons to diabetes and sickle cell anemiaIn 1974 Joey ODonnell was born with strange symptoms His insatiable appetite incessant vomiting and a relentless coughwhich shook his tiny fragile body and made it difficult to draw breathconfounded doctors and caused his parents agonizing sleepless nights After six sickly months his salty skin provided the critical clue he was one of thousands of Americans with cystic fibrosis an inherited lung disorder that would most likely kill him before his first birthdayThe gene and mutation responsible for CF were found in 1989discoveries that promised to lead to a cure for kids like Joey But treatments unexpectedly failed and CF was deemed incurable It was only after the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation a grassroots organization founded by parents formed an unprecedented partnership with a fledgling biotech company that transformative leaps in drug development were harnessed to produce groundbreaking new treatments pills that could fix the crippled protein at the root of this deadly diseaseFrom science writer Bijal P Trivedi Breath from Salt chronicles the riveting saga of cystic fibrosis from its ancient origins to its identification in the dank autopsy room of a hospital basement and from the CF genes celebrated status as one of the first human disease genes ever discovered to the groundbreaking targeted genetic therapies that now promise to cure itTold from the perspectives of the patients families physicians scientists and philanthropists fighting on the front lines Breath from Salt is a remarkable story of unlikely scientific and medical firsts of setbacks and successes and of people who refused to give up hopeand a fascinating peek into the future of genetics and medicine. 30 TECH ON THE BRAIN DOORWAY TO A CURE Grassroots e57375orts are beating cystic 57374brosis p42 INSIDE THE MIND OF A HERO p26 CITIZEN SCIENTISTS Try THIS in your own backyard p52 LYSIUM Hollywood goes transhuman p64 Discover SECRET RIGIN OF THE UNIVE IMRE NOTH, MD. 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This inspiring and deeply moving book is the story of those patients.Every weekend, in Holland’s most popular newspaper, de Volkskrant, renowned science-journalist Ellen de Visser asks a different medical professional to tell her about ‘that one patient’ the patient who changed everything for them.Every day, in every country, thousands of patients share their stories with their doctors: stories they may never have told anyone else stories that are heartbreaking, sometimes funny, and – just occasionally – unforgettable. To be able to do their job to the best of their abilities, medical experts use their ‘professional empathy’: they sympathize with their patients but try to keep themselves at a distance. But there is always that one patient who, for whatever reason, bridges this distance and often unwittingly, has a lasting impact on their doctor’s life.There’s the dying patient whose decision to donate their organs would save the lives of five different people, bringing incredible comfort to the family they left behind. Or the little girl who showed clear evidence of having been beaten by an adult, but who remained too loyal to her step-father to say a word. There’s the little boy, diagnosed with life-threatening malaria in a Sudanese refugee camp, whose astonishing survival against the odds still inspires their doctor each time they stand by the bed of a child who looks unlikely to make it. And there’s the cancer patient whose love of cycling and unflagging optimism inspired his oncologist in ways he could never have imagined.That One Patient is brimming with intimate stories of connection and of the unanticipated ways we can affect one other’s lives. 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