Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Kidney Transplants in Pakistan. Many patients unaware that paying donors is illegal.

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Here's a recent paper on  "Barriers to Kidney Transplants in Pakistan.  A striking fact is that only 4.9% of patients with kidney f...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Pakistan police bust organ trafficking ring --transplants were carried out in private homes

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  Outlawing compensation for donors doesn't end black markets for kidneys from living donors, but may succeed in driving them out of hos...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Blasphemy in Pakistan

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 How to strengthen a ban that already allows the death penalty for repugnant speech?  The NYT has the story: Pakistan Strengthens Already Ha...
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...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Kidney transplant controversies on World Kidney Day

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 Yesterday, March 10 was World Kidney Day , whose theme was "Kidney health for all." I couldn't help noticing that reports in ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Payments for Covid vaccine

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 The NY Times has the story: Pakistan’s Private Vaccine Sales Highlight Rich-Poor Divide.  An inoculation push, plagued with limited supplie...