Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Singapore to repeal law against sex between men.

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  The Guardian has the story: Singapore to repeal law that criminalises sex between men. Scrapping of colonial-era section 377A law hailed a...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Singapore court rules that only Parliament can approve gay sex

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 The NY Times has the story, about a colonial era Singapore law that isn't presently leading to prosecutions, but remains on the books: ...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Surrogacy, same sex marriage, and other Singapore repugnancies

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Yesterday I blogged about a court ruling in Britain that, although commercial surrogacy is illegal in Britain, it is legal for a British su...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Organ donation in Singapore: mandated choice?

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Here's a commentary on deceased organ donation controversies in Singapore: Mandated Consent – Not a Viable Solution for Organ Transpl...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

IVF: Experience suggests there's room for some regulation

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The Guardian has the story: IVF mix-up: wrong sperm may have fertilised eggs of 26 women Dozens of women may have had eggs fertilised by s...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Organ donation in Singapore: not rocking the boat

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The Singapore Medical Journal publishes an extremely cautious article on  Policy options for increasing the supply of transplantable kidney...
Monday, March 7, 2016

First paired kidney exchange transplant done in Singapore

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Here's the story from the Straits Times, about a short non-directed donor chain:   First paired kidney exchange transplant done in Sing...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

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That's the title of a paper that Judd Kessler and I recently finished, motivated by one aspect of organ donation in Singapore (and rece...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Corruption and kidneys in New Jersey and Brooklyn

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The NY Times reports on a corruption investigation resulting in 44 arrests in New Jersey and Brooklyn: In New Jersey Case, Nervous Jokes and...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Singapore kidney update

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To follow up on my post yesterday about Organ donation and compensation in Singapore: new legislation , Sally Satel points me to The Human ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Organ donation and compensation in Singapore: new legislation

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A new law was passed on March 24 in Singapore, allowing compensation for live organ donation. It's not yet clear what this will mean in...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

A word for unraveling in Singapore: "Choping"

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" Choping " is Singapore English slang for reserving something well in advance, i.e. a place in school for your child, etc. That i...
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