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...swing-dance competition in Stamford, Conn., the couple became dance partners and went on to win British lindy-hop competitions before getting hitched in 2003. Last year the duo partnered to devise a system that could save hundreds of lives a year by more efficiently matching kidney donors with the 62,000-plus Americans waiting for a transplant...
More than 3,000 people die each year waiting for a kidney. Although many patients have loved ones who are willing to donate a kidney, incompatible blood types or antibodies often make the transplants impossible. As a result, most patients wait three to seven years for a kidney from a cadaver--which lasts only half as long as an organ from a live donor. To help solve this problem, Segev and Gentry devised a way to improve kidney-paired donation, which involves matching a patient who has a willing but incompatible donor with a donor-patient pair who have...
...American Medical Association in April. Based on an algorithm created by the Canadian mathematician Jack Edmonds in 1965, the system improves paired donation by ensuring the maximum number of matches while still factoring in age, location and willingness to travel. Segev estimates that if only 7% of kidney-transplant hopefuls participated in a national program, the health-care system would save $750 million annually, since fewer patients would spend years on dialysis waiting for that perfect match. --By Anita Hamilton. With reporting by Matt Smith/New York
DIED. NURCHOLISH MADJID, 66, prominent Indonesian intellectual who became known as the conscience of his nation for persistently advocating a moderate form of Islam and insisting that his mostly Muslim country remain secular; of liver and kidney failure; in Jakarta. The author of several books, including the popular Doors to God (he emphasized the plural), he is credited with persuading hard-line President Suharto to step down...
Drugs called ACE inhibitors are so good they should be given away, says a University of Michigan study. If the meds were free for diabetics age 65 and older, there would be fewer cases of heart attack, stroke and kidney failure--and a big net saving for Medicare...