In early October, it was clear: Justin needed a kidney transplant, and needed it soon to stave off dialysis. He needed to get into the National Kidney Registry and on the donor list. Then he needed to get family and friends to test to see if they were matches. But with so...
In fact, the very existence of software engineers and doctors and other high earners who are my age and still feeling financial stress is proof of this: it’s mathematically impossible to earn so much for almost 30 years and not have an absolute shit-ton saved, unless you are also spending...
Shapira performed more than 300 kidney transplants, sometimes accompanying his patients to other countries, such as Turkey. The recipients are very wealthy or have very good health insurance, and the “donors” are very poor people from Eastern Europe, Philippines and other developing countries, sai...
I have used mangos in many of my recipes (see Recipes List below), but not as many as I would like because I know many people are intimidated by choosing and cutting mangos. In fact, while mangos are considered the world’s most popular fruit, a recent survey by theNational Mango Board...
Skaik hopes that Gaza medical teams will eventually carry out kidney transplants independently, and that other organ transplants may follow. The Shifa is working with the Gaza ministry of health on a plan to train its doctors, surgeons, nursing staff and laboratory technicians in transplant surgery...
Atala is also pursuing this “wafer” model of creating partial transplants for other organs. Though Atala always remains circumspect about the status of his projects, he says this partial transplant model is different: That team is far along in the process, successfully placing ki...
much. These results do not map neatly into existing models of limited attention. We provide a simple model of limited attention where relative differences in attention toward current and future expenses can explain how reminders could increase savings rates. Our results suggest that reminders ...