Got It! Let's Cool It! But What's Next in Organ Donor Research?

Organ Donor Research: It Is Time for Much Needed Clarity.

When faced with the grim landscape of morbidity and mortality attributable to the organ shortage, the medical community intuitively looks to research for solutions. Basic discoveries vetted in the literature, followed by rigorous testing in increasingly relevant animal models, and culminating in prospective, randomized trials that prove safety and efficacy delineate the classical pathway of med...

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The Rising Incumbent Reelection Rate: Whats Gerrymandering Got to Do With It?

The probability that an incumbent in the United States House of Representatives is reelected has risen dramatically over the last half-century; it now stands at more than 98%. A number of authors and commentators claim that this rise is due to an increase in bipartisan gerrymandering in favor of incumbents. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we …nd evidence of the opposite e¤ect. All el...

It is an organ, it is new, but it is not a new organ. Conceptualizing language from a homological perspective

It is a widely shared opinion among specialists that language is an evolutionary innovation, or that it contains some key evolutionary innovations. However, such claims are not based on a correspondingly consensual concept of “evolutionary innovation,” but are rather expressed on atheoretical grounds. This fact has thus far acted as an obstacle for the collaborative effort upon which the task o...

Health research: what's culture got to do with it?

This paper examines prevention programming for African American girls by placing the prevention process within the larger African and African American cultural context. We provide an overview of the theories and issues we consider most relevant to African American culture, including Africentric theory, ethnic identity, gender identity and relational theory, developmental issues, the community c...