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...much you are worth depends in a large part on which country you live in and your gender. In Iran, for example, you could legally sell your kidney for upwards of $6,000. Iran currently has no renal transplant waiting list, a credit to this policy legalizing the organ trade. In the U.S., where organ sales are illegal, the present waiting list of kidney transplant candidates numbers around 75,000. These individuals rely on the uncompensated charity of living organ donors, or, more commonly, the consenting donations of deceased persons. The average wait time is over five years and demand...
...about $129,000. To get to that number, Stefanos Zenios and his colleagues at Stanford Graduate School of Business used kidney dialysis as a benchmark. Every year dialysis saves the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who would otherwise die of renal failure while waiting for an organ transplant. It is also the one procedure that Medicare has covered unconditionally since 1972 despite rapid and sometimes expensive innovations in its administration. To tally the cost-effectiveness of such innovations Zenios and his colleagues ran a computer analysis of more than half a million patients who underwent dialysis, adding...
Tony Stark tinkers in his lab to build a gadget that will keep him alive and a metal suit in which to house the artificial organ: the media dub him Iron Man. Speed Racer drives the car built by his dad to win the big rallies and in the process becomes one with his souped-up T180...
...most optimistic subjects. Simon said the findings show that there is strong connection between the brain and overall health. “I think this is just one of many examples of the unity of mind and body, and the fact that the mind is a really, very powerful organ,” he said. Gregory L. Fricchione, a professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, said he agrees with the findings presented in the article. “The resiliency that we have as human beings, as human organisms, is made up of these components...
...with humans—our conclusion would be that we either screwed up the analysis real badly or the sequence from the T. Rex wasn’t authentic and there was contamination from some of the workers that sequenced the proteins,” said Chris L. Organ, a postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the study...