Showing posts with label altruism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label altruism. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Kidney exchange: the donor stories, and the movie Abundant

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 I'm learning a bit about movie production by following the progress of the movie Abundant, which is about to have a pre-release premier...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Helping potential kidney donors lose weight to qualify: Project Donor at RISC

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 Many potential kidney donors fail to qualify for reasons involving their own health status. Most commonly they are asked to lose weight bef...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Altruism and financial incentives in medicine (less altruistic physicians more readily respond to payments by drug companies)

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 Physicians have professional obligations to care for their patients, and also deal with financial incentives that may not perfectly align w...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Exceptional altruism: living organ donors who donate twice

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 Some living donors are moved to do it twice: first a kidney, and then later a liver, or the other way around. It appears that this is trend...
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Breast milk donation--Guinness World Record

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  While ' altruism isn't enough ' when it comes to SoHOs as Sally Satel reminds us, it's well worth celebrating.   Here...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Peter Singer interview in the NYT

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  The NYT interviews the eminent philosopher: Peter Singer Wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency   By David Marchese Q. "I think of y...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

A(nother) movie about kidney donation

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 When it rains it pours: after yesterday's post about Abundant , here's  a trailer for another movie about kidney donation, from th...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Kidney and liver donation: the movie trailer for Abundant

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  You can see the 1.5-minute trailer for the movie here , or here . ########## Earlier:  Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Abundant: a moving docu...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Nondirected liver donation in Canada--from the beginning

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The Ottawa Citizen has the story: The Gosling Effect: How one man (and his liver) forever changed Canadian health care. In 2005, Kevin Gosl...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Abundant: a moving documentary about living organ donors

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This past weekend I streamed a preview of a new movie about  living organ donors, kidneys (mostly) and some livers. It's called Abundant...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Kidney brouhaha in Israel: is a good deed still good when performed by a shmuck?

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 Recently a three way kidney exchange was performed in Israel. This would have been unremarkable under most circumstances: Israel has an act...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Paying it forward

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  Scott Cunningham , an economist who devotes a lot of his efforts to providing public goods, recently had a post on the phrase "paying...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Sell a kidney to save a life? by Dylan Walsh, in WIRED.

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  Martha Gershun alerts me to this story which appeared this morning in WIRED, in which the author, a kidney transplant recipient (24 years...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Josh Morrison profiled in Vox

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  Josh Morrison, the founder of  WaitlistZero  and  1DaySooner , is an unusually energetic and effective effective altruist.    Here's a...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Do (some) kidney donors have a right to donate?

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 Here's an article that considers whether some potential kidney donors, who have more appetite for risk than some transplant teams, migh...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Renewal: "My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat"

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  When reporter Stewart Ain needed a kidney transplant, he contacted Renewal . He explains the process that led to him being matched to an a...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Challenge trials in Britain and (not) in the U.S.

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 The NY Times has an excellent piece on Covid vaccine challenge trials, and the different traditions (and repugnance) in Britain and the U.S...