Author: Gary William Cross
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ISBN: 9781938624131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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When Gary Cross and his wife learned that their baby son Brad had hemophilia, it seemed like a relatively small bump in the road of their American dream family life. Medicine would make it all manageable. But the Crosses did not know the shots they were giving Brad for his condition carried a deadly virus. As AIDS began to dominate the headlines, Gary started to doubt the doctors' assurances that everything was OK with Brad's treatment. And his demand for answers brought to light disturbing revelations: Thousands of hemophiliacs like Brad had been infected with HIV because the blood used for their clotting factor injections came from high-risk donor groups. While caring for his ailing son, Gary embarked on a campaign for justice for Brad and the thousands like him. His efforts took him from the courtrooms to the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. The Crosses' heartbreaking personal story was broadcast nationally on CBS' 60 Minutes. After more than a decade, Gary's crusade ended not in court or in government chambers but in a Los Angeles hotel, where with other leaders in the hemophilia community he brokered a remarkable peace settlement with the pharmaceutical companies whose products had killed. This is his story.
Author: Cara McGoogan
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 163576954X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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“A stunning investigation.” —Publishers Weekly How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis. By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely. Then, as chronicled in Blood Farm, a new HIV-positive population emerged, one that included kids like Ken Dixon, Brad Cross, and Ryan White who had been infected as young as ten years old. But how? Unbeknownst to doctors and patients, pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Baxter, and Armour collected plasma on skid row, in night clubs, and in some of America’s most notorious prisons to make Factor VIII, a new miracle treatment for hemophilia. Companies knew these practices put patients at high risk of HIV, but miracles are a lucrative business, so they knowingly sold an infected product and effectively played Russian Roulette with hemophiliacs’ lives. The results were catastrophic. In America, some 8,000 people with hemophilia contracted HIV; only 700 are alive today. Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan daringly exposes an expansive map of corporate greed and negligence that led to one of the biggest overlooked medical scandals in history. Alongside her we meet survivors turned activists, determined small town lawyers, and fearless reporters desperate for justice. Their fight for retribution created a critical inflection point in the AIDS crisis: stigmas shifted, settlements were awarded, and, later, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the largest federal program on HIV. In shocking, riveting detail, Blood Farm uncovers how a miracle treatment became a deadly poison and forever changed our understanding of AIDS.
Author: Frederick Marryat
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Author: Frederick Marryat
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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![God the Author of Reconciliation ... [From the “Discourses upon Regeneration.”] Reprinted from the edition of 1699 PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/NHRjAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Stephen CHARNOCK
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Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Alexander Cruden
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Author: Edward Vaughan Kenealy
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Category : Trials (Perjury)
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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![A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures ... By Alexander Cruden. The Eighteenth Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected ... To which is Added an Original Life of the Author. [With a Portrait.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/hVVGKKDWR6UC?fife=w80-h100)
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
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Pages : 454
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