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Word: transplante (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...motives are purely altruistic. U.S. hospitals run donor-recipient couples through a series of interviews, including a meeting with a social worker, who checks to make sure that no money is exchanging hands and ensures that both parties understand the details of the surgery. Dr. Arthur Matas, renal-transplant director at the University of Minnesota's medical school, says that hospitals ask unrelated donor-transplant couples how they met each other, but that there is no "hard rule" or set of fixed guidelines to help authorities determine if the donor is receiving payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does Kidney-Trafficking Work? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...transplant fanbases go, the Padres might be the worst. The military is one of the chief industries about town—as proven by the fact that the Padres were wearing their desert camo unis yesterday—and thus a large majority of the fans are not from San Diego...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 1: Yo Soy Tu Padre | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...demonstrated by Exhibit A, California is anyone’s game. With a population that is largely transplant, allegiances are fickle (in the interest of full disclosure, my allegiance will always be with the Braves, as I am a native of the South, but there’s always room for two). Therefore I lay myself before you, oh mighty Golden State. You decide my baseball fan destiny...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE INTRO: California's a Brand New Game | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

These ideal images, though, may only make people more critical when real-life care doesn't measure up. CBS's fall debut Three Rivers, set at an élite transplant center, could underscore our luck-of-the-draw access to lifesaving resources. Or it could remind viewers of the top-shelf procedures that Obama's critics say will be threatened by "socialized" solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POTUS TV: Paging Dr. Obama | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...natural compound used as an immunosuppressant in organ-transplant patients has been found to extend life in mice, according to a study published on July 8 in the journal Nature. Aging mice that were given the substance, rapamycin, lived significantly longer than mice that didn't get the drug: females that received rapamycin were 13% older at death and males 9% older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does Life-Extending Drug Mean for Humans? | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

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