Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...test, a kind of tissue matching used to decide who will probably accept a kidney transplant most successfully, is less accurate for blacks than for whites. The result: blacks receive only 22% of donated kidneys (not counting transplants from relatives) though they make up 31% of patients waiting for such an operation...
With the United Auto Workers' announcement last week that it had chosen Ford as its lead target, negotiations on a new three-year contract between U.A.W. and the Big Three automakers began in earnest. The key issue is the labor-cost advantages enjoyed by Japanese companies with transplant factories in the U.S. These factories are nonunion, their employees are young and they have few retirees...
...like home, hearth and family -- that have seemingly gone astray in many urban centers. California never offered those. California offered liberation and excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho town. Angstadt, a jogger and bicycle enthusiast, thrives on Pocatello's old-fashioned, small-town neighborliness: "When you ask someone for directions, they practically lead you there in their...
Clinically, the hospital is especially noted for its neonatal intensive care unit (the largest and busiest in the state, it says); its burn care unit and its heart, lung, kidney and bone marrow transplant units...
...Chang, a registered nurse in Brigham's renal transplant office, said she's unsure about what consolidation will really mean...