Showing posts with label nondirected donor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nondirected donor. Show all posts
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...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Nondirected liver donation in Canada--from the beginning

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The Ottawa Citizen has the story: The Gosling Effect: How one man (and his liver) forever changed Canadian health care. In 2005, Kevin Gosl...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Kidneys: compensation and altruism

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 Apropos of my debate with Debra Satz this afternoon , here are two articles about kidney donation, from pure altruism or with compensation,...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
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, July 31, 2023

Altruistic kidney donors in Israel

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  The Forward has the story Why Israel has more altruistic kidney donors than any other country in the world  By Michele Chabin "Israel...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

NYC police officer receives a kidney through Kidneys for Communities (KFC:)

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 Police magazine has the story of an anonymous living kidney donor who wanted his/her kidney to go to a first responder, facilitated by   Ki...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Compensating kidney donors: a call to action by Brooks and Cavanaugh in the LA Times

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 Here's a clarion call for compensation of living kidney donors, from two nondirected kidney donors.  It's not the first, and very l...
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 ...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

It's not so easy to become a living kidney donor: report from the Cleveland Clinic

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  It's not so easy to become a living kidney donor.  Here's a report on the pipeline at the Cleveland Clinic: Cholin, Liza K., Jesse...
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, September 17, 2022

Non-directed organ donors and NLDAC financial support

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For some years I've been a member of the advisory group of the National Living Donor Assistance Center ( NLDAC ) which is authorized to...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Three living kidney donors talk about their experience

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 Tonight at 6pm Eastern, three donor stories from the National Kidney Donation Organization ( NKDO ) Click Here to Register
Monday, August 8, 2022

Renewal: "My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat"

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  When reporter Stewart Ain needed a kidney transplant, he contacted Renewal . He explains the process that led to him being matched to an a...