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...have an intense fear of midgets. 11. I think yoga is incredibly spiritual. I know the Lord is with me in my downward dog. (See pictures of facial yoga.) 12. I was born with jaundice. 13. I was born pigeon-toed. 14. I was born with an extra kidney. I wish I could have sold it on the black market and made some money, but it was underdeveloped and did nothing but cause me to wet the bed until the third grade. 15. I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...difference is, exactly, has yet to be discovered. That kind of finding would have “enormous implications” for the understanding of obesity and diabetes and for the pharmaceutical industry, said Philip Gorden, the former director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Those who aren’t fortunate enough to be callipygian, however, can’t do much. “It’s very hard for people to control their fat distribution,” Gorden said. “What they can control is the quantity...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Big Behinds May Benefit Health | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

Currently, about 62% of kidneys transplanted each year in the U.S. are harvested from deceased donors; many of those organs cannot be transplanted if they aren't correctly preserved. Past studies have shown that a kidney must be transplanted within 24 hours to lessen the risk of failure in its new host. Most organ centers handle kidneys pre-transplant by washing, then submerging them in a preservation solution and melting ice. But recent evidence has suggested that perfusion machines, which have been around since the 1970s, might do a better job of maintaining the organs and perhaps promote survival once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Kidney Transplant | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...Rutger Ploeg, professor of surgery at the University Medical Center of Groningen in the Netherlands, set up a trial involving patients from the international organ exchange group called Eurotransplant. Researchers procured a pair of kidneys from 336 deceased donors and, within 24 hours, placed one from each pair in cold storage, and attached the other to a LifePort Kidney Transporter perfusion machine. The kidneys were then transplanted into 672 recipients. Among the patients who received a cold-stored kidney, 89 developed a condition called delayed graft function in which the kidney fails to function immediately after transplant. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Kidney Transplant | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

About half of U.S. transplant organ facilities currently have perfusion machines, according to estimates by the National Kidney Foundation, something that may change based on the results of the new study. "If we can take the kidneys that we have and increase the likelihood that they will work [better], then that's going to be marvelous," says Becker of the National Kidney Foundation. And, if the study results hold, that benefit could extend to other transplant tissue as well. "We're going to see interest in utilizing this principle for other groups of organs," says Dr. Stefan Tullius, chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Kidney Transplant | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

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