Showing posts with label plasma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plasma. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

›
 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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

›
 Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) have a growing, often lifesaving role in modern medicine, from breast milk for premature babies, to kidne...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

›
  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IV fluid shortages in the U.S.--perhaps we should allow international imports?

›
There's a hurricane-induced shortage of intravenous (IV) fluid.  Maybe we should import some? (But...international borders...) An obstac...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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

›
 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

›
 Requiring national self sufficiency in blood and plasma supplies is particularly hard on low and middle income countries, as is limiting th...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Blood donation by family members in India: LGBT donors still banned

›
 In India, where the shortage of blood supplies is addressed by having family members donate, the ban on donation by LGBT people is a seriou...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Incentives for blood donation in China

›
 College students have serious (and competitive) incentives to donate blood in China.  This is from Ariana Tang's blog blood donation bo...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Britain's Infected Blood Inquiry Report: Prime Minister's apology, and the benefits and perils of hindsight

›
  After the publication  yesterday of  Britain's Infected Blood Inquiry Report , the UK's Prime Minister apologized to the nation. H...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Britain's Infected Blood Inquiry Report published today

›
  The UK commissioned a report on infections in its blood supply in the 1970's and 80's, and on the government's belated respons...
Monday, May 6, 2024

The Design of Markets. Una Nobel Lecture (Two talks in Padua, on Tuesday and Wednesday)

›
 Following my talk in Rome today , I'll be speaking in Padua tomorrow and Wednesday, first giving a seminar on controversial markets, an...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Text of the new EU regulations on Substances of Human Origin

›
 Kim Krawiec points me to this newly published document, with the 'final' regulations intended to prevent compensation of donors of ...