The Mystery of Health and Disease

About the Book

The Mystery of Health and Disease: Why We Get Sick, How We Can Reduce Illnesses is an educational book for the reader who is wondering about health and disease. We all know what health and disease are about. But they are not understood clearly enough, especially when so many diseases are around us. This book uses nonscientific language to explore all the possible meanings of health and disease. It begins with health, but following that, it describes various diseases and the reasons why they happen. Furthermore, it mentions the possible relationship among diseases and how to avoid them from happening. The author hopes this book can help people understand disease for those interested in health and disease.

About the Author

Hong Son Cheung was born in Shanghai, Mainland China, seventy-nine years ago. Later he moved to Hong Kong with his parents. In 1961, he came to the USA for graduated studies. He has two sons named Noland Cheung and Alvin Cheung. He got his bachelor of science degree in Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, in 1958 and obtained his master of science degree in Oklahoma State University in 1963. He worked at the Institute for Muscle Disease in New York City for three years. He joined the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in 1966 and was with Bristol-Myers Squibb since its merger until he retired in 1996. Mr. Cheung has published thirty-one scientific papers, ten abstracts, five books (plus this book for a total of six books) and has three registered, copyrighted documents. He has two notebooks stored in the Squibb Museum. Mr. Cheung is involved in drug discovery research. His area of expertise is in enzyme inhibitors in cardiovascular disease, particularly the angiotensin-converting enzyme and neutral endopeptidase. The rational design of the first ACE inhibitor Captopril is a true breakthrough drug in drug development history. Captopril, Monopril, and Omapatrilat are primarily his contributions. He was invited to lecture on the rational design drug in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, in 1980 by the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academic of Sciences, and Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industrial Research. He was also invited to the National Construction Seminar in Taiwan in 1981. He was the president of the Chinese American Chemical Society, Tristate Chapter, in 1998, and the organizing cochair of the Fifth Chinese American Conference on Chemical Science and Technology in 1998.