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Marijuana Use in Potential Living Kidney Donors: To Exclude or Not To Exclude?

December 12, 2018

121,678 patients in the United States are waiting for organ transplants. Of those patients, 100,791 are in need of a kidney. In 2014 alone, 17,107 patients received a kidney transplant, 11,570 from deceased donors, and 5,537 from living…

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Balancing the Sex and Gender Scale in Research: The American Physiology Society Sex and Gender Conference

November 16, 2018

Treatments and guidelines are created in the hopes of improving public health. However, the research foundations designing these guidelines have created an enormous sex imbalance in the field. During the second week of October, The American Physiology Society…

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