Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous in all areas of life — used in the houses people live in and the cars they drive, and in the smartphones used every day to post updates on social media. But now AI is making inroads into the nonprofit world, with the…
COPD SOS, a public service campaign spearheaded by veteran broadcast journalist Ted Koppel and his wife, is aimed at identifying the millions of people who don’t yet know that they have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This disease is estimated to affect 30 million people in the U.S.,…
Note: This article was updated to include information from a Hopkins study published on May 5, 2021, of responses after a second vaccine dose was given to transplant patients. Long before COVID-19 changed the world, organ transplant recipients were wearing masks to shield themselves from airborne threats. Immunosuppressive medicines, which often…
At 3 a.m. on July 6, 2003, Miami resident Jeffrey Goldstein got a call that would change his life. Doctors at the Duke University Lung Transplant Clinic had found a lung donor match for Goldstein, who had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis two years earlier. Nearly 17 years…
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