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Showing posts with label chains. Show all posts
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...
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, September 10, 2024

Kidney exchange chains between Israel and Cyprus

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 Israel Hayom has the story. (Itai Ashalgi's software gets a shout-out): Unprecedented Israel-Cyprus kidney exchange saves 8 lives.  Cro...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Kidney transplants for cats

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 Kidney transplants for cats are a thing, and they all take the form of kidney exchange with a very short chain, in which the lives of two c...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Recent kidney transplant papers

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 Here are two new papers on kidney exchange that caught my eye, and one on incentivizing deceased donation by prioritizing registered donors...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Nondirected living kidney donors--Abundant (the movie, in progress)

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  Abundant is a movie in the making,  a documentary about altruism, focused on non-directed living kidney donors, who start kidney exchange...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Kidney exchange (and other bits of market design) in the New York Times

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  Peter Coy, the veteran New York Times economics columnist, writes about kidney exchange, after an interview/conversation sparked by a rece...
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...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Freakonomics replay and update on kidney exchange and organ donation

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  Freakonomics Radio yesterday revisited some of their old podcasts about kidney exchange. In one, they interview me, and in another, they i...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

The power of kidneys, altruism, and books. (And recommendation of a doctor in the UK)

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 Here's a story, about kidneys and about books, in inews.co.uk: ‘It’s a gift with no conditions attached’: Why I donated my kidney to a ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Kidney exchange collaboration between Stanford and APKD

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 I recently had occasion to review the long collaboration between  my Stanford colleagues and  Mike Rees and the Alliance for Paired Kidney ...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Kidney exchange in The Times of India

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  The Times of India covers my talk at the Indian Society of Transplantation meeting: Alvin Roth for legal boost to kidney exchange pool in ...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Prospects for improving kidney exchange in France

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A recent article in  Néphrologie & Thérapeutique simulates h ow kidney exchange in France could possibly be made substantially more effe...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

The Future of Living Donor Kidney Transplants May 7, 2022 (online webinar hosted at U. Chicago)

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Yesterday I posted about the increasing incidence and prevalence of end stage renal disease .  On Saturday I'll be taking part in a medi...