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...That's especially important, since in recent years, the quality of donated kidneys has declined, due in part to the typical donor's advanced age and increase in accumulated health problems and diseases. Given the dwindling of an already small pool of viable organs, many patients are choosing to obtain kidneys from living donors - usually close relatives, who must undergo an extremely invasive and dangerous operation to donate the organ. But machine preservation, if used more widely, could help curb that trend, says Ploeg. "When we have good kidneys from deceased donors, we don't have to harm a living...
...father fought on the side of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War and was imprisoned in one of Franco's concentration camps before he escaped to Mexico. Now, thanks to a change in Spanish law, the Mexican-born García, 63, is busy compiling the paperwork to obtain the citizenship she feels she has been unfairly denied all these years. García is already recognized as a Spanish citizen through marriage. But having her nationality acknowledged as her birthright is a matter of honor. "It's not redundant," she says. "I've always had an identity conflict...
...project catapulted him to scientific prominence, even earning him a spot on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of our time in 2004. The same year, he launched the Broad Institute to find applications for the new wealth of genetic data he helped obtain...
...President Fritz Henderson acknowledged the "Term Sheet" on the rescue package does require the automaker to obtain concessions from the union. But privately, union officials are saying that they didn't sign the term sheet, so they don't feel bound...
...proposal. It now calls for doubling the number of exceptions to Sunday closing rules per year from the current five to 10, not counting the period prior to Christmas. Even then, however, city councils must approve local extension of Sunday openings, a green light that may prove hard to obtain after the nation-wide romp the Socialists enjoyed in municipal elections last spring. "Don't bother voting this text, because it won't be applied," warned Socialist Party leader and mayor of Lille Martine Aubry. "We'll be as ferocious in battling this project as we were the initial...