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Sep192020 by adminNo Comments
Expanding donor list shortens heart transplant wait times, study finds

Expanding donor list shortens heart transplant wait times, study finds

Health
Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Accepting hearts from older donors and those with some chronic health conditions allowed surgeons at Yale New Haven Hospital to perform more transplants and reduce the time recipients spent on the waiting list, without negatively impacting safety and health, an analysis published Friday by JAMA Network Open found. With the changes, the hospital was able to more than quadruple the number of heart transplants it performed and cut the average time recipients were on the waiting list by nearly 200 days, the researchers said. Advertisement The findings suggest that a more "inclusive" approach to selecting donor hearts and transplant recipients can enable hospitals to successfully treat more patients who need transplants, they said. "We ... made strategic changes in donor an...
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Apr272020 by adminNo Comments
‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah’ expanding to 45 minutes nightly

‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah’ expanding to 45 minutes nightly

Entertainment
April 27 (UPI) -- Comedy Central announced The Daily Show with Trevor Noah would extend episodes from 30 minutes to 45 beginning Monday. The show will air Mondays through Thursdays from 11 to 11:45 p.m. Trevor Noah has hosted The Daily Show remotely from his home in New York while practicing social distancing, under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's stay-at-home orders. He has dubbed the show The Daily Social Distancing Show and incorporated his slate of correspondents via video chat. The Daily Social Distancing Show featured the first late night interviews given by Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Other guests of the remote show included Bill Gates, Stephen Curry, Babyface and Teddy Riley, Jennifer Garner and Govs. Gavin Newsom, Phil Murphy and Gretchen Whitmer. Noah has also suggested viewers donate to ...
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Dec222019 by adminNo Comments
Cities are expanding outward, not upward — an unsustainable pattern

Cities are expanding outward, not upward — an unsustainable pattern

Science
Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Most urban growth, researchers have found, is defined by expansion at margins. Cities aren't getting taller, they're getting wider, fueled by suburban sprawl, not skyscrapers. Scientists at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies identified the predominant growth patterns -- detailed this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters -- among 478 cities with populations of at least 1 million people. Suburban expansion is correlated with greater demands on energy and greater strain on natural resources. "While these trends are probably not sustainable in the long term, it's not too late to shape the future of what these cities look like," Richa Mahtta, Yale researcher and lead author of the new paper, said in a news release. "However, we must act soon, ...
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