Friday, December 16, 2022

Covid vaccine coverage in middle and lower income countries, and preparations for future pandemics

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 Vaccine rollout to lower and middle income countries left something to be desired.  Some of that has to do with initial distribution when v...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Preparing for a drug-resistant bacteria pandemic---vaccines and challenge trials

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  Axel Ockenfels recently alerted me that "The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has established a working group to analyz...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Biden Signs Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights

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 With little delay after the Senate passage of the bill , the House followed, and now President Biden has signed into law a bill protecting ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Lobster traps, whales, and the enforcement of informal property rights

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 An experiment to protect whales from becoming entangled in the long ropes that connect lobster traps on the sea floor to buoys on the surfa...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Compensation for kidney donors, reconsidered in Value in Health

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Here's a paper and a commentary in the journal Value in Health , focusing on the possibility of reducing deaths from kidney failure by o...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Euthanasia in Canada

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  The NYT columnist Ross Douthat considers the medical aid in dying policies in Canada, and warns us that conservative politics is what prot...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022)

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  Amnon Rapoport , a pioneer of experimental game theory, has died.  Here's a brief obituary: Amnon Rapoport, Distinguished Professor Em...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Two illegal (former) kidney transplant networks analyzed: the Netcare -and Medicus cases, by Ambagtsheer and Bugter

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 There aren't many successful prosecutions resulting from illegal organ trafficking, despite the fact that the prevalence of illegal kid...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Three way liver exchange in Pakistan, reported in JAMA Surgery by Salman, Arsalan, and Dar, in collaboration with economist Alex Chan

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  Here's an exciting account, just published in JAMA Surgery, of a three way liver exchange in Pakistan, achieved in part by collaborati...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Insulting the president, in Indonesia

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  Sex outside of marriage, and insulting the president are to become more serious crimes in Indonesia.  (The law has a foolproof way of dete...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Test of Time Award: call for nominations

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 Test of Time Award "The SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers publis...
Monday, December 5, 2022

The 2022 Einstein Foundation Awards

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 Here are the  Recipients of the 2022 Einstein Foundation Award s Einstein Foundation Individual Award Winner 2022: Gordon Guyatt , for his ...
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, December 3, 2022

Roundabouts

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  A straight line isn't always the safest path between two points. The Washington Post has the story: Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating t...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Gale and Shapley '62, “College admissions and the stability of marriage” at 60

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 Time really flies, doesn't it?  Here's a paper whose title didn't give away what it was about: Bipartite choices , by Marco LiC...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Same sex marriage rights reaffirmed by the Senate

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After a Supreme Court ruling in 2015, it seemed secure that the right to same sex marriage was the law of the land. However the recent Supre...