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What's a healthy year of life worth? According to a study by Stanford and University of Pennsylvania researchers, about $129,000. Using Medicare records on treatment costs for kidney dialysis as a benchmark, the authors tried to pinpoint the threshold beyond which ensuring another "quality" year of life was no longer financially worthwhile. The study comes amid debate over whether Medicare should start rationing health care on a cost-effectiveness basis, as many other nations do. While the Stanford figure may seem low, it's actually an upward revision. The number most cost-benefit analyses use to determine whether...
...African American role models. Black children whose white parents minimized the importance of racial identity were reluctant to identify themselves racially." But is it necessarily catastrophic to eschew a strong racial identity? Not everybody thinks so. "All adopted children face challenges with being adopted," says R. Richard Banks, a Stanford Law professor and author of The Color of Desire: Fulfilling Adoptive Parents' Racial Preferences through Discriminatory State Action. "To some people, saying we want children to develop a positive identity means a positive racial identity. But it could be a good thing not to have a strong racial identity...
...Harvard’s west coast competitors in the biomedical sciences—Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)—have already received significant infusions from their state’s stem cell initiative...
...first round of awards last month, California gave $44 million to Stanford for its $200 million stem cell institute and $35 million to UCSF for its $95 million research center...