Showing posts with label kidneys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidneys. 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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Kidneys for Communities and first responders

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The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York receives national award for helping its members and first responders nationwide ba...