Breath from salt : a deadly genetic disease, a new era in science, and the patients and families who changed medicine forever
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
616.372/TRIVEDI,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2020]
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 558 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781948836371, 1948836378 :, 1948836378, 9781948836371
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"--