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#transplants

When Joan Rivers died in 2014, ending one of the greatest careers in modern comedy, several groups were interested in acquiring her archives, which included a meticulously organized collection of 65,000 typewritten jokes.Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, recalled a conversation with a representative from the Smithsonian Institution who wanted the catalog of jokes but said it would not be on permanent display.

At a dialysis center in Brooklyn, Nardel Joseph used to try making friends with the other patients, until they began dying one by one.As her kidneys failed from an autoimmune disease, Ms. Joseph, 34, realized she might be next.A new kidney would offer Ms.Joseph the best hope for regaining her health, but as an undocumented immigrant who lacked health insurance, her odds of getting a kidney transplant had been close to zero.

The US government on Wednesday announced a plan to overhaul the country's organ transplant system.The US Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration said it will focus on accountability and transparency by seeking more contracts to operate the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and sharing data more transparently.

Many readers responded to my newsletter last Friday about my great-grandfather's life during the Depression in Vermont.I heard from neighbors, relatives and readers as far away as Australia.While some wrote glowingly about the resilience and camaraderie fostered by the Depression, others focused on the suffering.

When traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation fail, lung cancer can be a death sentence for many patients.That, however, may be changing, with Northwestern Medicine leading the way.Northwestern plans to begin regularly performing double lung transplants on patients with terminal lung cancer, after successfully transplanting lungs into two patients who would have otherwise died of the disease, the health system announced Wednesday.

While many of us will soon be out there making like a human rototiller turning the vegetable beds in the name of what we were taught soil preparation required Charles Dowding takes a different tack.With a bow rake or an oscillating hoe in hand, he kicks off the new season with a quick pass over each bed, tickling the soil surface, he said, rather than upending it, to disturb any weeds seeds that might be germinating.

YEREVAN, Armenia It would be easy to mistake Tuf for a trendy club somewhere in Russia.A meditative indie band played, a family of Muscovites sold homemade cosmetics and a tattoo artist from St. Petersburg drew a seal on someone's arm.But Tuf is in the capital of Armenia.It was born of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent exodus of Russians, many of whom are still in shock.

KYIV, Ukraine  The surgeons had made the long incision down the middle of the child's chest, cut the breastbone to spread the rib cage and reach the heart when the lights went out at the Heart Institute in Kyiv.Generators kicked on to keep life-support equipment running on Wednesday night as nurses and surgical assistants held flashlights over the operating table, guiding the surgeons as they snipped and cut, working to save a life under the most trying of conditions.

The newest affordable neighborhood for DC-area workers is...Richmond?Looks like it.As remote and hybrid work appear here to stay and people grow more frustrated with the Washington area's high housing prices, some are deciding they'd rather report to their DC office from further down I-95.Richmond saw a huge rise in the number of Northern Virginia residents who relocated during Covid: There was a 36 percent increase in the average number of NoVA transplants to Richmond during 2020 and 2021 compared to the time between 2012 to 2019, Axios reports.

Not only are we cooking up a massive post-snowpox LICE EXPLOSION, I also found out that a favorite treat of the Giant House Spider, not to be confused with the House Spider, is bedbugs.So that means if you are unlucky enough to have bedbugs, you might have a Giant House Spider in your bed picking bedbugs off of you while you sleep.

A mother has thanked an anonymous live kidney donor for changing her son's life after his successful transplant operation.Reece Sinclair, 11, from Kirkintilloch in East Dunbartonshire, underwent the operation last month after years of dialysis and is recovering well.It was the 300th successful kidney transplant operation at the children's hospital in Glasgow since the programme started in 1977.

Ten years after the UK's first hand transplant, the surgeon who led the team has said he would like to start helping children who have lost limbs to sepsis and meningitis.Consultant plastic surgeon Professor Simon Kay admitted it was extremely nerve-wracking when he and his colleagues gave Mark Cahill his new right hand on Boxing Day 2012, but says the procedure is now proven as predictable, reliable and successful.

In Berlin, the number of sick leaves is on the rise.The flu, colds, the RS Virus and the Coronavirus are to blame.Now, all of those waves made the Charité hospital take drastic measures.Berlin, December 15th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Since the Coronavirus hit Europe for the first time in early 2020, drastic measures were taken on numerous occasions.

Two women who underwent double lung transplants died after contracting a bacterial infection linked to a contaminated water supply at a hospital, an inquest heard.Royal Papworth Hospital was relocated to a new site in Cambridge in May 2019, and in August 2019 two patients tested positive for Mycobacterium abscessus during routine testing.