Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
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....
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Income inequality, risk, and repugnance by Hauge, Kverndokk, and Lange

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Two recent papers by   Karen Hauge ,  Snorre Kverndokk , and  Andreas Lange  report on the roles played by inequality and risk in causing re...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Arguments against paying for plasma and other Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)

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 Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) have a growing, often lifesaving role in modern medicine, from breast milk for premature babies, to kidne...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Payments for election-related actions

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  Buying votes is illegal, but other election related offers may seem odd but are legal.   The Guardian has the story. ‘There are certain th...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Getting more transplants,, two recent articles

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  Frank McCormick, and Martha Gershon point me to two articles about increasing kidney transplants. The first one is by Dylan Matthews in Vo...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Incentives matter for getting participation in clinical trials by low income households

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  Here's a study that casts some light (via a randomized experiment) on the importance of incentives to get representative participation...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Compensating plasma donors, or buying plasma from the U.S.? Europe clutches its pearls (The Economist)

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 The Economist summarizes the plasma situation well. The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical. Reliance on America grows, as othe...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood, by Krawiec and Roth

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 Requiring national self sufficiency in blood and plasma supplies is particularly hard on low and middle income countries, as is limiting th...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Incentives for blood donation in China

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 College students have serious (and competitive) incentives to donate blood in China.  This is from Ariana Tang's blog blood donation bo...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

End Kidney Deaths Act intoduced in Congress

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  Here's the press release from the Congressional sponsors: Malliotakis Introduces Bipartisan End Kidney Deaths Act , August 12, 2024 &q...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

How Do Financial Obstacles Affect Decision-Making Among Potential Living Organ Donors?

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  Here's a report on the effects of helping living organ donors with their expenses. Mandell, Rebecca J., Abigail R. Smith, Kimberly A. ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

The End Kidneys Death Act has growing support

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I've earlier blogged about the  Coalition to Modify NOTA (the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984) . Here is a summary of their propos...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

A proposal to assess public opinion in Europe on compensation for organ donors

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  Here's a paper that proposes doing an experiment. Concerning compensation for organ donors. In Europe.  With the hope of influencing p...