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When Michigan-based Spectrum Health discovered that its community-based care program was not adequately serving some of its highest-need patients, Spectrum revamped the program—with dramatic results, Karen Wagner reports for Hospitals & Health Networks.
To find out why someone would donate a kidney to a stranger, researchers at Georgetown University examined these "extraordinary altruists" and learned two things: Extraordinary altruists value a stranger's life as much as they do the lives of family and friends—and they're "politely puzzled" as to why others don't do the same.
Justin Sanchez, director of the biotechnologies office at the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, says the study's findings are a "breakthrough" for scientists who are searching for ways to improve brain function.
The spending package does not include several budget priorities the White House had detailed in March, such as a $1.2 billion cut to funding for NIH research.
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