Showing posts with label kidneys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidneys. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Kennedy proposes to focus on chronic disease, but terminates large-scale long-running NIH Diabetes Prevention study

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  The NYT has the story: As Kennedy Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut.  Two significant programs that invested in re...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Kidney transplant black market in Myanmar

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 BBC Burma has the story (I guess they haven't updated their country name...no doubt they still refer to the Gulf of Mexico, too:)  The ...
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...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Kidneys, compensation, and altruistic activists

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  Here's a well written story about kidney donation, and  some of the very interesting people involved in the debate over compensating d...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Clinical trial of pig kidney transplants

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 A clinical trial is good news. The NYT has the story: F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients The research off...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Organ transplant ban by Taliban in Afghanistan (BBC)

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  Afshin Nikzad forwards me this report from  the BBC Persian service (in Farsi, but automatically translated by Chrome): Kidney transplant ...
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...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Another transplant of a pig kidney

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A very highly sensitized patient, even one with lots of priority on the deceased donor waiting  list (a prior donor) may not find a compatib...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New rules for evaluating transplant centers

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 Historically, transplant centers ('hospitals') have been primarily evaluated on the one year graft survival on the transplants that...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

The market for kidneys is strong

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 "For 2025, Bickell expects the market for kidneys to be very strong." Alas, it's a story about kidney beans, from RealAgricul...
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...