Daily Beast |
Why Americans Don?t Read Foreign Fiction
Daily Beast The writing, translated crisply by Mark Polizzotti, is laced with investigations and speculations, false leads and dead ends, with expressions such as It seems more likely…as luck would have it…unless…perhaps…he had vanished in that sudden … |
Pacific Standard |
Should We Pay People to Donate Their Kidneys?
Pacific Standard Approximately two-thirds of kidney transplants use organs from deceased donors while the remaining occur using kidneys from living donors. But over the past several years, kidney transplant rates have plateaued—and living donor kidney transplantation … |
Glasgow Evening TimesD-Day for government to opt-out of organ plansGlasgow Evening TimesThe Scottish Government has achieved a 1% annual increase in donor registration numbers since 2010 – resulting in 842 more transplants from deceased donors or 267 e…
Cadaver donations see rise in city, total count touches five after two …The Indian ExpressThe year has begun with an unprecedented rise in cadaver donations with the total count of donors touching a record five so far in 2015 following two organ dona…
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Ghani, UNDP, and the New York Times: Who really “…
Foreign Policy (blog) … and inconsistent data points on police employment and payments; and around 300,000 ANP identification cards reportedly in circulation — nearly twice the ANP’s authorized strength of 157,000 –leading to difficulties in distinguishing between active … |
Local woman needs kidney transplantLexington DispatchLongtime Ellis Jewelers employee Sherry Burkhart sits in the showroom on Thursday afternoon. Everhart was born with just one kidney and due to its failure, she is waiting and hoping for a kidney dono…
Acton Institute (blog) |
Fertility Industry: Money, Not Science
Acton Institute (blog) Next, “there are no major peer-reviewed studies on the long-term effects of super-ovulation on the otherwise healthy population of egg donors.” Without these … We do not offer money to grieving families for the organs of their deceased loved ones … |
Renal and Urology News |
Study Highlights Survival Benefit of Solid-Organ Transplants
Renal and Urology News The study also found a survival advantage for adult kidney transplant recipients of living-donor transplants compared with deceased–donor transplants (median survival time 18.5 years vs. 9.8 years). “These results refute any lingering perception of … |
Full-Time Whistle |
Record number of organ donors helped save more than 1000 lives in 2014
Full-Time Whistle Ontario’s Trillium Gift of Life Network sees an 18-per-cent increase in organ, tissue and transplant donations from the year before. Ontario set a new record for organ donations last year that helped save more than 1,000 lives, an agency for organ … |
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New GOP litmus test: Pot
Politico WSJ A1 (second story after economy lead, linked below), “Romney’s Exit Spurs Scramble for Donors,” by Patrick O’Connor and Beth Reinhard, with Heather Haddon, Josh Dawsey and Rebecca Ballhaus http://on.wsj.com/1vkcS7h … WashPost 2-col. …. –“Your … |