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Hot-Button DCD Heart Transplants Bolstered by Survival Data

(MedPage Today) -- In heart transplantation, donation after circulatory death (DCD) appeared to be a viable way to expand the donor pool without a long-term survival penalty, based on the first 6 years of experience in the U.S. Across heart transplants...

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More than 100,000 people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

The number of people aged 100 or more in Japan has exceeded 100,000 for the first time, according to the health ministry.

  • Japan now has over 107,677 centenarians, the highest globally.
  • Oldest woman is 114-year-old Kishimoto Fuyo from Kyoto City.
  • Oldest man is 112-year-old Kato Hikaru from Kumamoto.

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