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...instead UPMC healed itself, devising a new health-care model that is more entrepreneurial: it is 60% health-care provider and research institution, 30% for-profit company that operates a health-care insurance subsidiary, and 10% commercial-services exporter running emergency rooms in the Middle East and transplant and cancer programs in Europe. It looks to companies such as Siemens and General Electric as role models, since both do basic research but have to develop profitable products. UPMC has formed a joint partnership with GE, called Omnyx, to develop an information-technology-based digital pathology business. Each company is investing...
...patients whom he helped to die “deserved the service.” In response to a question on Oregon’s assisted suicide law, Kevorkian said that medical euthanasia should be conducted like every medical service, with an extensive consultation process, as with a heart transplant. “We have medical guidelines, and it must be absolutely informed consent,” he said. The terms of his parole, however, include a stipulation that he refrain from giving advice to patients seeking assisted suicide. Instead of returning to medical practice, Kevorkian said he will work...
...second episode, but the highly praised British original resolved its story in only 16 episodes. Can this American Life avoid becoming ridiculous stretching the story out over dozens of episodes? It will depend on how well it rethinks the closed-ended British story line. In the end, successful foreign-transplant shows are not really "imported"; they immigrate. Eventually, they need to learn a new dialect and new mores. If they succeed - like Archie Bunker and all TV's other Ellis Island inductees - they'll have to find a way to adapt, take root and thrive in their new home country...
...them in somebody—it basically gets rid of the dangerous transcription factors that were used in the initial integration,” said Gordon C. Weir, a Medical School professor who heads the diabetes program at HSCI. “The last thing you want is to transplant a potentially malignant cell into a patient...
...findings have implications for creating body tissues safe to transplant into patients to treat diseases...