Showing posts with label blood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blood. Show all posts
Friday, December 20, 2024

Blood transfusion for dogs and cats

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 Somewhat as in human donation around the world, blood donors for veterinary transfusions of cats and dogs are both volunteers and professio...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Blood supply in West Africa

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 Here are some thoughts on blood shortages in West Africa by Jappah and Tao. (Jappah has just returned from Sierra Leone...) To meet demand,...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IV fluid shortages in the U.S.--perhaps we should allow international imports?

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There's a hurricane-induced shortage of intravenous (IV) fluid.  Maybe we should import some? (But...international borders...) An obstac...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood, by Krawiec and Roth

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 Requiring national self sufficiency in blood and plasma supplies is particularly hard on low and middle income countries, as is limiting th...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Blood donation by family members in India: LGBT donors still banned

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 In India, where the shortage of blood supplies is addressed by having family members donate, the ban on donation by LGBT people is a seriou...
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...
Friday, June 21, 2024

How frequently can whole blood safely be donated?

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  Maybe only twice a year for people who don't take iron supplements, according to this recent comment (on a randomized trial in the Net...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance, by Robert Stüber

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 Here's a nice experiment in the EJ: Robert Stüber, Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment , The Economic Journ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Britain's Infected Blood Inquiry Report: Prime Minister's apology, and the benefits and perils of hindsight

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  After the publication  yesterday of  Britain's Infected Blood Inquiry Report , the UK's Prime Minister apologized to the nation. H...
Monday, May 20, 2024

Britain's Infected Blood Inquiry Report published today

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  The UK commissioned a report on infections in its blood supply in the 1970's and 80's, and on the government's belated respons...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Text of the new EU regulations on Substances of Human Origin

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 Kim Krawiec points me to this newly published document, with the 'final' regulations intended to prevent compensation of donors of ...
Monday, April 22, 2024

Plasma donation in the EU: compensated and uncompensated

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 Here's a commentary on the EU Parliament's current efforts to ban compensation to plasma donors in the EU, published today.  Julio ...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Plasma in Canada: payments and protests

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 The local newspaper in Niagara on the Lake, a town in Ontario, Canada, covers the proposed opening next year of plasma collection centers t...