Kidney Transplant Tourism carries Significant Risks: Study
PerfScience
According to study researchers, they noted that survival rate of one and 10 years for organs received by “commercial recipients versus related donors were 91% and 22% versus 98% and 44%. Survival rates for each of the patients produced similar results, …
Studies assess racial disparities associated with living kidney donationEurekAlert (press release)
Study reveals Traveling overseas for Kidney Transplant could increase Health RisksLedger Gazette
Traveling overseas for organ transplants increases health risksMyTechBits
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Why Ted Cruz Could Be the Next President of the United States
Slate Magazine
Second, and related, is his heated, almost bombastic rhetoric. … Indeed, to the extent that he relies on this inside knowledge to sell himself to grassroots voters—“Republican donors actively despise our base”—he wouldn’t be Cruz without it. But he …

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CSU considers tuition increases, year-round schools to find financial footing
Long Beach Press Telegram
Norwalk High School students are the first in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District to be offered a language course in Mandarin. In Jasmine Cheng’s classroom they are learning culture, to ask and answer questions and some can already count to …

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Inside the abandoned plans of Ted Cruz’s super PACs
CNN
Related: Top Walker strategist joins Cruz’s campaign. It’s a reflection of the divided campaign finance world, where super PACs are allowed to raise unlimited amounts of cash (donations must still be reported to the Federal Election Commission), but …

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Students petition for transparency of Koch Foundation financial donations
Utahstatesman
All records, including documents and emails related to the agreement between USU and the Koch foundation are requested by students, including sophomore Diego Mendiola because “students at Utah State deserve an education that hasn’t been bought, …

Sponsors deserve apology
Brantford Expositor
The Brantford trail signage project’s donors and sponsors deserve an apology. They provided $453,600 to update the city’s badly deficient and out of date trail signage. The majority of this financial support was deposited in a special municipal account …

First Gen, Lopez Group rebuilding more schools
The Standard (press release)
In the first two phases of the Lopez Group’s school rebuilding program, funds pooled from various donors by ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation Inc. – Sagip Kapamilya were tapped to construct new school buildings or to repair damaged schools in … of …

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Marco Rubio’s Use of Party Credit Card Reinforces a Picture of Messy Finances
New York Times
Mr. Rubio, 44, has claimed all along, and his campaign repeated on Saturday, that he occasionally used the party’s card to pay for things that were not related to his job, but that he always paid American Express with his own money for those items …
Marco Rubio releases Florida GOP charge card statementsCNN
Rubio releases Florida GOP charge card statementsKY3

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Priest shelters Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS
WND.com
Essentially a voucher system, the arrangement, according to Father Khalil, “allows the families to maintain their dignity” but also provides him with the data needed for donors interested in making donations in kind. The system has become so successful …