Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Monday, May 19, 2025

Notes from Messina (kidney exchange and the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti)

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 We traveled last week from Prague to Sicily, for the Matching in Practice workshop in  Messina, which was rich in kidney exchange. I was...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Matching Theory and Market Design: conference in Sicily.

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 Here's the preliminary program for the 20th Matching in Practice Workshop   University of Messina, Department of Economics, Aula Magna ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Kidney exchange in Italy and Europe

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  In May, when I spoke at the   Istituto Superiore di Sanità.  I was interviewed by TrendSanita, and that interview has just been published....
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Surrogacy under continued attack in Italy

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The language of repugnance is strong in these latest developments. The NYT has the story: Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Se...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Talks to doctors and students in Italy

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 I just returned from a busy trip to Italy, that began with a talk to physicians in Rome  about kidney exchange, after which I moved on to ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

The design of markets, in Padua (video)

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking about market design in the Aula Magna of the University of Padua , where Galileo lectured.  Below i...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Kidney exchange in Italy, Europe and the U.S.: video of my talk in Rome

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  Here is a video recording of my talk in Rome yesterday at the   Istituto Superiore di Sanità.  There are some introductions by people wit...
Monday, May 6, 2024

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

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 Following my talk in Rome today , I'll be speaking in Padua tomorrow and Wednesday, first giving a seminar on controversial markets, an...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Matching markets and organ transplantation at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome on Monday

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 I'm traveling this weekend to help inaugurate  the celebration of the 90th anniversary of Italy's Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Hig...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Italy

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  Italy-Portugal cross transplants. that click that saved two "Thanks to a complex work of intervention planning and logistics, managed...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Will Italy criminalize foreign surrogacy?

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 It's hard to ban something that people want and need and is legally available in other jurisdictions, but it looks like Italy might try...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Kidney exchange launched between the U.S. and Italy

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  Here's the announcement from Italy (in Italian), on the site of the Centro Nazionale Trapianti, the National Transplant Center:  Al vi...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Medical aid in dying in Italy--a first

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 The NYT has the story: Man Paralyzed 12 Years Ago Becomes Italy’s First Assisted Suicide   By Elisabetta Povoledo "Paralyzed 12 years ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

More on Deceased donors as non‐directed donors in kidney exchange chains

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I anticipate that we  will be reading more in the future about kidney exchange chains started by a deceased donor kidney.  In the meantime, ...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Social distancing during the plague

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 The Washington Post has the story (as a tourist destination...) Restaurants in Italy are reopening ancient ‘wine windows’ used during the p...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

City of Science museum in Naples

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Last June I gave some talks in Italy (back when there were airplanes, and in-person talks--remember?) One side trip took me to the City of ...
Monday, October 14, 2019

A kidney exchange chain initiated by a deceased donor, in Italy

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  Deceased Donor–initiated Chains First Report of a Successful Deliberate Case and Its Ethical Implications Furian, Lucrezia MD1; Corneli...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Surrogacy law in Italy (moderated by subsequent court decisions)

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The Italian law governing reproductive technology and surrogacy dates from 2004, but (although I don't think the law has been amended),...