Showing posts with label UAE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UAE. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

"Better to exchange kidneys than bombs."

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 Some coffee cups  should naturally come in pairs, so that you have one for a friend in need. (These recently arrived in the mail, from Laur...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

More kidney exchange in the UAE--

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  Kidney exchange in the UAE, with the assistance of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation ( AKPD ), took another step forward, with a thr...
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 ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

The United Arab Emirates and the Alliance for Paired Kidney Exchange formalize their relationship

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  From the Abu Dhabi Government Media Office, this Oct. 7 announcement: SEHA, Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation Formalize Partnership to P...
Monday, October 4, 2021

More on the UAE-Israel kidney exchange

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If you're just tuning in, you can follow the story  of the kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel  here . The pairs who exchanged ki...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

UAE as a natural hub for international/global kidney exchange

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  T here are excellent hospitals in the United Arab Emirates that can perform kidney transplants, and they are prepared to do kidney exchang...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Stanford celebrates Itai Ashlagi and the UAE-Israel kidney exchange

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Here's a Stanford story celebrating Itai Ashlagi 's role in this summer's UAE-Israel kidney exchange. (His matching software is ...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Kidney Exchange between Israel and the UAE (in USA Today, yesterday)

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  I spent a week in the UAE this summer, in connection with a three-pair kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel.  (The UAE is a natural ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Liver transplantation in the Middle East

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  Here's a chapter on transplantation in a book about liver cancer.  The countries in the Middle East that can do liver transplants can ...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

UAE modifies laws on alcohol, cohabitation, and honor killings

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  The Guardian has the story: UAE decriminalises alcohol and lifts ban on unmarried couples living together--Country also ends lenient punis...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Global kidney exchange between Abu Dhabi and Kerala (India)

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Here is an article in the newspaper Malayalam Manorama, in Malayalam , the language spoken in Kerala, about a global kidney exchange between...