Showing posts with label registry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label registry. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Towards greater gun safety in San Jose

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 The mayor of San Jose, CA, has some thoughts on making guns and gun ownership less dangerous, in a  NY Times opinion column: 400 Million Gu...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Opt out organ donation in England and the Netherlands

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  Jansen, N. E., Williment, C., Haase-Kromwijk, B. J. J. M., & Gardiner, D. (2022). Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation—Re...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Pregnancy in Poland, a database and anti-abortion laws

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 The Lancet recently reported on new pregnancy data being collected in Poland, and controversy on whether and how it might be used in enforc...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Family consent and opt-in versus opt-out organ donation

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Here's a contribution to the discussion on how opt-out versus opt-in deceased donor laws might impact transplantation (as opposed to ju...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Presumed consent: too early to declare failure, but cautions are plentiful

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Frank McCormick points out a recent report in the journal Health Policy indicating that the Welsh move from opt-in to opt-out or (' dee...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

Old enough to drive, old enough to register to donate in Illinois

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Here's the press release Illinois Senate Unanimously Passes Legislation to Strengthen Organ Donor Registry The "Drive for Life&q...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

You can register as an organ donor in MN when you get a fishing license

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Organ donation isn't just for drivers' licenses in Minnesota: Fish, hunt, save lives: MN first to offer organ donor option on fish...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Organizing organ donation by social media

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In the NY Times, David Bornstein writes about the efforts by Organize to bolster organ donor registries by prompting statements of intent ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

To help Paris, donate blood... later (guest post by Carmen Wang)

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Carmen Wang writes: To help Paris, donate blood... later. Paris needs blood donations in the aftermath of the Attacks, although not...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Organ donors increase in California, as undocumented residents become eligible for driver's licenses

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Organ donors increase in California "BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) - There has been a recent hike in people registering as organ ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Don't take "No" for an answer: a reconsideration of how to do deceased donor registration

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Don't Take 'No' For An Answer: An Experiment With Actual Organ Donor Registrations Judd B. Kessler ,  Alvin E. Roth NBER...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Organ donor registration in Israel

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Judd Kessler and I just got this email from Jacob Lavee (about whom I've written before ), with good news that he kindly gave me permis...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Deceased donor registration versus transplantation in Malaysia

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The National News Agency of Malaysia (BERNAMA) has the following disheartening report on the difference between deceased organ donor regist...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Organ donation registration on college applications, in India

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Here's the story:  Governor tells V-Cs to offer option for organ donation in college admission forms "In a meeting held recently...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Bone marrow registries

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The NY Times reports on an effort to start a bone marrow registry in Nigeria, and to increase donation among African Americans: Finding a Ma...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Organ donation registration on income tax forms

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Organ donation checkoff proposed for tax forms "LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's secretary of state wants to make organ donation easie...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Organ donor registry mishap in Britain

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The Telegraph reports: Organs removed without consent after IT blunder "The records of 800,000 people were affected by an error that me...