It is an act that qualifies as "extraordinary altruism," says Abigail Marsh, who studies altruism as a neuroscientist at Georgetown University. Bruens, it turned out, was a perfect match for the ...

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Though the shelters are run in cooperation with the government-owned facilities that stage them, Castles explains that the ...

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be $80 ...

Giving a kidney to a stranger? Researchers call it 'extraordinary altruism' Renee Bruens of Clarksville, Tenn., was 33 years old — a wife and mother of two young boys — when a walk through a ...