World's first face transplant recipient dies + NASA: society could collapse soon

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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-fr...pital.html

    The world's first face transplant recipient, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, died in April "after a long illness", a French hospital said Tuesday.

 
The drugs that she had to take to prevent her body from rejecting the transplant left her susceptible to cancer, and two cancers had developed, the report said.  

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...urce=atlfb

Few think Western civilization is on the brink of collapse — but it's also doubtful the Romans and Mesopotamians saw their own demise coming either.

If we're to avoid their fate, we'll need policies to reduce economic inequality and preserve natural resources, according to a NASA-funded study that looked at the collapses of previous societies.

Meanwhile, resources continue to be used up, even by the technologies designed to preserve them. For instance, "an increase in vehicle fuel efficiency technology tends to enable increased per capita vehicle miles driven, heavier cars, and higher average speeds, which then negate the gains from the increased fuel-efficiency," the study said.

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More drugs needed because of maybe fewer choices available for compatibility matching when comes to face transplant donors?

I'm occasionally skeptical of the conclusions outputted from a retrospective analysis of why past civilizations collapsed in the context of popular hypotheses and conceptual biases in play during a current era or future society.

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It reminds me of the famous investing caveat that says something like past performance isn't necessarily indicative of future returns.