https://time.com/6303020/chronic-kidney-disease-climate-change/

I've been thinking that a lot of those jobs will have to shift to the graveyard shift. Some harvesting already has, but also construction and so forth.

Pig Kidneys Performing Effectively in Two Brain-Dead Patients - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/health/pig-kidney-organ-transplants.html

>pig kidneys

Honestly, I'd have thought that pig organs would be utilized more by now.

>pig organs

For organ transplants, the issues are rejection and size (pig organs can grow too large).  As I understand it, to manage both requires a significant amount of currently state-of-the-art gene-editing.  Science is just now capable of doing this.  The first trial of CRISPR in humans took place in China in 2016  ...and it usually takes 5-10 years to advance from the trial stage to being in general use.

I do think that we're likely to see pig kidneys regularly used for human transplants in 5-6 years.    Why? It is costing medicare BIG $$$ and they're desperate for a cheaper fix and seem willing to fund promising research.  End stage kidney disease, which affects only 1 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, accounts for 7 percent of Medicare spending.

>graveyard shift

double entendre...

Mississippi Guard restricts outdoor training during heat wave after 1 soldier dies, another ends up in the hospital | Stars and Stripes

https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2023-08-21/soldier-heat-dead-national-guard-mississippi-11115932.html