Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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 Here's a forthcoming article in the Journal of Hepatology. Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first atte...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The black market in stolen homing pigeons

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  Below are some excerpts from a long interesting story in the Washington Post, about how a boom in pigeon racing in China led to a rash of ...
Monday, August 25, 2025

In China, you can hire a woman to disrupt a husband's extra-marital affair

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 The Guardian reviews a movie about a kind of covert marriage therapy becoming available in China, in which a 'mistress dispeller" ...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Children adopted from China can now find birth-family connections via DNA sites

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 Like children conceived with the help of anonymous sperm donors, adopted children can use DNA websites to search for family members.  For c...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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

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 The Economist summarizes the plasma situation well. The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical. Reliance on America grows, as othe...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Incentives for blood donation in China

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 College students have serious (and competitive) incentives to donate blood in China.  This is from Ariana Tang's blog blood donation bo...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

An Experimental Study of the Chinese Organ Allocation System

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 China presently has a low rate of organ donations per million population, so there's a lot of room for growth.  Here's a study sugg...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Children in China

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 The NYT ran an interactive story on China's change in family policy, from one child (from 1979 to 2015), to two and now to three. At th...
Monday, January 8, 2024

"Scraping poison off the bone": Transplants in China without organs from executed prisoners

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 Following a long period in which the bulk of China's organ transplants used organs from executed prisoners, there have been steady effo...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The international market for squid (and how squid came to be calamari...)

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China's fishing fleet plays a giant role in the international market for squid. The New Yorker has the story: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAF...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Facial recognition software and autocracy

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  Here's a somewhat chilling recent NBER paper: Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI  by Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

THE 18TH CONGRESS OF ASIAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION (CAST) 25 -28 August 2023 • Hong Kong

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Tonight, Sunday, at 5:30pm California time, I'll be opening the Monday morning session in Hong Kong of the  THE 18TH CONGRESS OF ASIAN S...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

Calligraphy fan: OR and Game Theory

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  Haibo Wang visited and brought me a fan, with calligraphy from his dad in Chinese characters. Alex Chan  translates: "What is written...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Organ transplants between Hong Kong and mainland China: the promise and the politics

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 This is a followup post to an earlier post #  about the first cross border transplant in China between the mainland and Hong Kong. That...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Kidney Exchange in Hong Kong

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While liver exchanges have been done for some time in Hong Kong, possibly the first kidney exchange  has recently been reported by China Dai...
Friday, June 23, 2023

2023 Chinese Economists Society Annual Conference, June 24-25, 2023

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I'll be speaking via zoom at 6:40pm this evening in California/tomorrow morning in China, June 24, 9:40-10:40am ) at the  2023 Chinese E...