2 Americans, 1 at UCLA, win Nobel in economics
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 00:30
in Health & Medicine
Work that has provided better solutions for organ transplants led to a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a longtime professor at UCLA and an economist now at Stanford.For years, transplant surgeons have struggled with a vexing problem: seriously ill patients desperate for new kidneys and healthy people who were willing to donate an organ but had the wrong tissue type.