Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulation. 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, October 12, 2024

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

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  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 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil: prelude

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 Yesterday I flew home from a busy visit to Brazil, with Mike Rees and Dr. Gustavo Ferreira .   On Wednesday we all traveled to the capital...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Growth pains for legal marijuana, in Germany and New York

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Transitioning from a thriving black market for marijuana to a regulated legal market isn't so easy. The Guardian has the story from Germ...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Do Americans Drink Too Much? Politics and science in the debate over guidelines

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  The WSJ has the story:   Do Americans Drink Too Much? Alcohol Is Driving a Debate in Washington . Agencies, lobbyists and lawmakers are fi...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Nicotine is hard to ban: Juul wins a reprieve from the FDA, and illegal vapes flood the market

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 Here are two stories by Jennifer Maloney at the WSJ: FDA Rescinds Juul Ban, Opening Door for Federal Clearance. E-cigarette maker’s product...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Organs, tissues, and medical devices are regulated very differently

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 Here's an article in JAMA by a Michigan doctor and his Congresswoman, on the lack of regulation for some substances of human origin. Ur...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Text of the new EU regulations on Substances of Human Origin

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 Kim Krawiec points me to this newly published document, with the 'final' regulations intended to prevent compensation of donors of ...
Monday, February 5, 2024

The NFL embraces sports gambling for fans but not for players

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 The Superbowl is in Las Vegas, and gambling is being embraced by the NFL for fans, but not for players and other NFL employees. The NYT has...
Friday, January 26, 2024

The DOJ on competition for workers

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  A lot of market design is done by regulators, and some of that is done to enforce existing laws.  Here's a report from the Department ...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Reporting and misreporting from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

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 Because there are shortages of organs for transplant, it is important to measure how successful Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) are ...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

What's ahead for U.S. organ allocation in the coming year

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 Here's the December announcement from HRSA of their plans for reforming organ procurement and allocation this year.   Organ Procurement...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Deceased organ donation in the Economist (article and letter to the editor)

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  Here's a recent article on deceased organ donation, in The Economist, followed by a letter to the editor from Alex Chan and me. In Ame...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

The underbelly of the global art market (NYT)

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 Art is not just art, it's also an investment opportunity, and one that evades many of the regulations that apply to investments recogni...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Growing pains for legal marijuana, in California and beyond

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The market for  legal marijuana in the U.S. is suffering from (literal) growing pains, as large scale legal cultivation runs into both crop ...
Friday, July 21, 2023

The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System: participant statements

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 Yesterday's Senate Finance committee hearings on The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System are on v...