Logan and I love to see news of others that have received a new organ. Recently in San Francisco there was a 6-way kidney exchange: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/science-behind-crazy-6-way-kidney-exchange/ The kidney is a more common transplanted organ, and also in higher demand. It's a fickle organ that is very sensitive to changes in the immune system. A live transplant also …
Wednesday Five
Logan has been handling the posts lately as I have been recovering from a cold. Honestly, I also forgot about the posts - it must be the cold getting to my brain. It's a good thing Logan is on top of things! Logan reminded me to post for today, so here are five things that I'll share …
Math and Livers
Every week I have to come up with story ideas for the radio show I help produce, Word of Mouth. Some weeks finding good ideas is easy, other weeks I can't seem to find any good ideas/stories for the show. This was one of the bad weeks. However, in the process of looking for show-worthy …
Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia Research
"What Logan and I learned on our rainy winter weekend:" Logan and I spent most of the weekend doing research on elevated bilirubin, specificallly unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. The two major findings: Bilirubin in people with Gilbert's Syndrome can be as high as 8.0, though it is rare: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12198827 Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia with other tests being normal is DNA related. …
Why Don’t People Want To Donate Their Organs?
The Atlantic published an article (link here) on Monday exploring the reasons people don't donate their organs. I thought the author, Tiffanie Wen, did a very good job of scientifically looking at the reasons, but I found these reasons very frustrating. The reasons cited are: mistrust lack of understanding belief in misinformation concern for body …
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