14Jul/15

Filing Reveals Details of Ben Carson’s Campaign Fundraising, Spending … – Wall Street Journal (blog)


Wall Street Journal (blog)

Filing Reveals Details of Ben Carson’s Campaign Fundraising, Spending
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Of the 4,965 contributions whose donors were disclosed, at least 872 were physicians, surgeons, nurses, psychiatrists or held other related jobs, according to a review of the filings. By contrast, other professions in similar pay brackets were less

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14Jul/15

Petition launched to reform organ donation system – Salisbury Journal


Cambridge News

Petition launched to reform organ donation system
Salisbury Journal
A SALISBURY woman who received a life-saving transplant has set up a petition calling for reforms to the organ donation system in the UK. Lucy Ryan had a heart transplant in 1993, a month before her third birthday. In April she celebrated the 22nd …
Why the Cambridge Transplant Unit at Addenbrooke’s is ‘unique’Cambridge News

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14Jul/15

Donald Trump Being Wrong About Everything and Unelectable Doesn’t Make … – Huffington Post


Huffington Post

Donald Trump Being Wrong About Everything and Unelectable Doesn’t Make
Huffington Post
What matters in such instances is a) fidelity to a dexterous and idiosyncratic psychic pathology that permits one to move through daily tasks with hope and determination, coupled with b) an awareness of (if not an over-sensitivity to) the fact that

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14Jul/15

India Freezes Ford Foundation Funding… – Foreign Policy (blog)


Foreign Policy (blog)

India Freezes Ford Foundation Funding…
Foreign Policy (blog)
Ford Foundation, a leading global charity has had $4 million of its funding to India frozen, after a clampdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on donors perceived to be interfering in domestic politics (Reuters). The government
Ford relief option on PMO tableCalcutta Telegraph

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14Jul/15

Hand, face, and uterus transplants for trauma victims pose ethical dilemmas … – Genetic Literacy Project


Genetic Literacy Project

Hand, face, and uterus transplants for trauma victims pose ethical dilemmas
Genetic Literacy Project
But patients seeking a VCA transplant only have to wait days or weeks to receive one from a deceased donor, and VCAs don’t, biologically at least, save lives. So there isn’t much justification for donations from the living. Except that it does increase