Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Size is important in liver exchange

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  Liver exchange has a lot in common with kidney exchange, in the sense that the issues involved in forming cycles and chains once you know ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Simulating European kidney exchange, by Druzsin, Biró, Klimentova, and Fleiner

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There are a big variety of procedures used for kidney exchange in Europe.  Here are a set of simulations meant to explore their effects. Dru...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Germany?

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  A draft law to make kidney exchange legal in Germany, and to allow nondirected donation, is making some progress: here (with the help of G...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Ignazio Marino is running for the EU Parliament

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  When in Rome, I met with Ignazio Marino (transplant surgeon, former Mayor of Rome) who is now running for the EU Parliament.  He posted a...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Kidney exchange in Italy, Europe and the U.S.: video of my talk in Rome

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  Here is a video recording of my talk in Rome yesterday at the   Istituto Superiore di Sanità.  There are some introductions by people wit...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Matching markets and organ transplantation at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome on Monday

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 I'm traveling this weekend to help inaugurate  the celebration of the 90th anniversary of Italy's Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Hig...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Expanding kidney exchange in India

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 The Ahmedabad Mirror reports on the success of kidney exchange at the Trivedi Institute in that City, and on discussions underway to build ...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Call for kidney exchange in Jordan

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 Here's a paper by Jordanian transplant docs, pointing out that kidney exchange (and perhaps cross border kidney exchange) would be usef...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Revisiting the Israel-UAE kidney exchange

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 I spoke in Jerusalem yesterday about kidney exchange, and one of the things I talked about is the kidney exchange between Israel and the UA...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Spain, and prospects for global kidney exchange

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 Here's an article from a Portuguese hospital that has engaged in kidney exchanges with Spanish hospitals that have resulted in three tr...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
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...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Kidney exchange in the U.S. from 2006-2021

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 Here's an interesting look at the (ongoing) development of kidney exchange in the U.S Temporal trends in kidney paired donation in the ...
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...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Market Design in El Mercurio--Chile's oldest newspaper

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Last Tuesday, in Chile I was interviewed by  Eduardo Olivares , the editor for Economics and Business of El Mercurio,  which published the i...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Kidney exchange as an innovation in organization

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Here's a two minute video summary of an address I gave in 2014, just noticed now, which seems still pretty up to date. A lot of progress...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Design of (international) kidney exchange: ex-post rejection versus ex-ante withholding

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 Here's a paper by several Dutch computer scientists, which seems to be motivated by the problem of international kidney exchange within...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Global kidney exchange between Denmark and U.S.

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 Here's a news story from North Carolina, home of one of the patient-donor pairs in the U.S.-Denmark kidney exchange, organized by the A...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation

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  How might we increase the number of lifesaving transplants from living kidney donors? Might we one day be able to reward donors? And what ...