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World
Should Kidney Donors Be Paid?
A guest essay argued in favor of payments. Readers, including donors, offer divergent views.
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Health
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible.
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Arts
Kali Malone Studied Farming. Fate Brought Her to Avant-Garde Music.
The 29-year-old musician grew up in Colorado and ended up in Sweden, where she fell in love with the organ. Her latest album, “All Life Long,” is out now.
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World
When Does Life Stop? A New Way of Harvesting Organs Divides Doctors.
The technique restarts circulation after an organ donor is declared dead. But first surgeons cut off blood flow to the brain. One surgeon called it “creepy.”
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World
A ‘Preventable Tragedy’: Dying for Lack of an Organ Donor
More from our inbox: A Public Misinformed About the Federal BudgetMaking Bread by HandFoie Gras ‘Status’Against GamblingCredit...Musubu HagiTo the Editor: Re “She Feared the Organ Donation System Would Kill Her. It Did,” by Kendall Ciesemier ...
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Tonya Ingram Feared the Organ Donation System Would Kill Her. It Did.
It’s 2019, and the 27-year-old poet and mental health activist Tonya Ingram is looking for a kidney on Instagram. Her best option is to compel someone to agree to a living donation. Where Tonya lives in California, the wait list for a kidney from a ...
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Politics
In Brazilian Caves, She Wields a Penislike Organ to Gather Sperm
Scientists studied the muscles that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of insects.
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World
Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91
He drew the best from complex instruments at Riverside Church in Manhattan, at countless recitals and on the “Hour of Power” TV show.
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Health
Organ Donations Rise Around Motorcycle Rallies
This summer, when half a million bikers clogged the streets of tiny Sturgis, S.D., for one of the country’s largest motorcycle rallies, there ...
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World
Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92
Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led antiwar ...
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