The Cure

Author : Geeta Anand

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 29 December 2009

ISBN : 9780060734404

Price : €19.88

Description

The book that inspired the movie,Extraordinary Measures,starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, and Keri Russell,The Cureby Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is the remarkable true story of one fathersdeterminationto find a cure for his terminally sick children even ifit meant he had tobuild a business from scratch to do so.

With three beautiful children, a new house, and financial security, John and Aileen Crowley were on top of the worlduntil their two youngest children, fifteen-month-old Megan and five-month-old Patrick, were diagnosed with Pompe disease and given only months to live. Refusing to accept a death sentence, John quit his financial consultant job and invested his life savings in a biotechnology start-up to research the disease and find a cure. Battling scientific setbacks, conflict of interest accusations, and business troubles, John and Aileen would be tested to their limits as they valiantly fought, and succeeded, in finding revolutionary new treatment for the diseaseoffering hope to Megan, Patrick, and the many children and families affected by Pompe disease around the world.

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