Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Gift to deceased donor family (generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante)

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 What is generous ex-post but illegal ex-ante? Cleveland.com has the story:  Bernie Kosar gives large check to donor’s family days after lif...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Illicit organ trade, in Nigeria and elsewhere

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 Here's an article about organ (kidney) trafficking, by a Nigerian physician, which has a good account of the background of the Nigerian...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

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 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a cal...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
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...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Ethical compensation for research participants: an open letter

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 Institutional review boards (IRBs) are often faced with the question of whether research participants should or must be compensated, and ho...
Friday, April 25, 2025

JAMA declined to publish this letter on kidney donation

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 JAMA recently published the following Viewpoint, whose title adequately summarizes its main point: The End Kidney Deaths Act Risks Irrevers...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Kidneys and Controversies at Mt. Sinai hospital

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 I gave a talk yesterday at Mt. Sinai hospital. They had encouraged me to talk about controversies, which I happily did.  They were a sympat...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The End Kidney Deaths Act is reintroduced to the 119th Congress

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 Resolved: lets be generous to nondirected kidney donors H.R.2687 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable tax c...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Kidney transplant black market in Myanmar

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 BBC Burma has the story (I guess they haven't updated their country name...no doubt they still refer to the Gulf of Mexico, too:)  The ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Kidneys, compensation, and altruistic activists

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  Here's a well written story about kidney donation, and  some of the very interesting people involved in the debate over compensating d...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Informed consent and compensation for clinical trial participants (Ambuehl, Ockenfels and Stewart in REStat)

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 Here's the latest in a series of papers that suggests that participants who are attracted to e.g. clinical trials by the pay may be tho...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The debate over compensating organ donors is heating up

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  It's a new year, and maybe there will be progress in increasing organ donation.  Here's a video in which Elaine Perlman explains...