Word: iowa
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Graham is currently a professor at the University of Iowa, working in the Writers Workshop division, which she explained is considered "the premier graduate program in the nation...
English department members at the University of Iowa said they regret losing Graham to Harvard...
Photographer Bryan Lee, 28, of Ottumwa, Iowa, entered a living nightmare last spring. His daughter Makenzie, 4, had developed liver cancer, and the only thing that could save her was a new liver. Since the demand for transplantable organs is always greater than the supply, Makenzie had gone on a waiting list--but high up, due to the severity of her condition...
...bottom. Reason: the Federal Government was planning to institute a new system for organ allocation. Makenzie would have to compete for an organ with not only patients in her local area but liver patients all across the country as well. She might have been one of the sickest in Iowa, but in that larger population, she would have been considered relatively well off. Fortunately, Makenzie got her transplant last...
...smaller regional centers have proliferated. The University of Pittsburgh, for example, did 540 liver transplants in 1991, but only 200 last year. The cost per patient can be as high as $300,000. "You're talking millions and millions of dollars lost to those big transplant centers," says Iowa surgeon Maureen Martin...