The New Yorker |
The Unfavored Daughter: When Margaret Chase Smith Ran in the New Hampshire Primary
The New Yorker (Alice Roosevelt Longworth once referred to the practice as using “coffins as springboards.”) A widow’s closeness to her late husband, and her familiarity with his political beliefs, offered at least the veneer of continuity as well as a tasteful, if … |
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Unsure of cadavers’ identities, GW medical school stops accepting bodies
Washington Post The school is contacting families of about 50 deceased people whose bodies were involved in the troubled program, spokeswoman Anne C. Banner said in an email to The Washington Post on Friday afternoon. … Akman’s statement said, “As the dean and as a … |
Financial Times |
Egyptian artefacts at Two Temple Place, London
Financial Times For many visitors to London, the British Museum’s Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, with its monumental gods and pharaohs, is a non-negotiable part of the itinerary. Yet it is only the tip of a large pyramid: there are more than 200 public and private … |
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Double donor surgery on Crete saves lives
Kathimerini “It is the sweetest phone call when the coordinating teams tells you that a compatible donor has been found. You’re overjoyed, but then immediately you think that this means someone died.” Dimitris Magginas is 55 and spent 25 months waiting for a heart … |
Coeur d’Alene PressLocal woman excited to be living kidney donorCoeur d’Alene PressIn 2014, more than 17,000 kidney transplants took place in the U.S. More than 11,500 of those kidneys came from deceased organ donors while 5,537 came from living donors…
HealthDayRacial Disparity in Kidney Transplant Outcomes Narrows: StudyHealthDayOver the course of the study, five-year failure rates of the kidneys transplanted from deceased donors fell from just over 51 percent to slightly less than 31 percent for bl…
Scotsman |
Scots families stop organ donations from deceased loved ones
Scotsman “Since 2008 we have seen an 82 per cent increase in the number of deceased organ donors in Scotland; a 42 per cent increase in the number of transplants undertaken; and a 21 per cent reduction in the active transplant waiting list. 42 per cent of Scots … Delmonico: Living organ donation should be a financially neutral actMyStatesman.com |
Martin: Legislation could help trim waiting lists for kidneysMyStatesman.comIncrease donation from expanded criteria donors and donations after cardiac death to make more organs available for transplant. Cover the cost of immunosuppressive drugs for th…
Editorial: Catching upJakarta PostForeign experts study the Iranian model to seek solutions to the long waiting list for organs from living or recently deceased donors, resulting in what many see as preventable deaths, contributed to by the lack of leg…
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State’s first public sector liver transplant facility inaugurated
The Hindu Chief Minister also made the formal announcement that under ‘Mrithasanjeevani,’ the State government’s deceased donor organ donation programme, over 500 persons had received a new lease of life. This was through organ donations received from 190 … |