Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compensation for donors. Show all posts
Friday, May 8, 2026

It’s time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. My op-ed in the Washington Post

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 This morning the Washington Post published my op-ed online (which is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Sunday). 800 words is hard...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Australia has more unpaid beekeepers than blood donors

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 If only there were some way for Australia to become self-sufficient in blood plasma, so it could stop having to buy it from the US... The F...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Funeral expenses for deceased organ donors in Taiwan

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 In Taiwan, the Ministry of Health and Welfare helps pay for the funerals of deceased organ donors.  From the Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry ...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Alex Chan on deceased organ donation

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 The Harvard Gazette points to this interview with HBS professor Alex Chan : Designing Incentives That Matter—Even After Death: Interview wi...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Paid plasma donations are becoming more middle-class

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  The NYT has the story: The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By.  Across the United States, plasma centers are ...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

The States as the laboratory of democracy: helping organ donors

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News from the States: Pa. senators mull inheritance tax cut, deductions for organ donors  "While employers across the state are allowed...
Monday, March 16, 2026

International statistics on plasma donation show that it is quite safe

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 Peter Jaworski collects the statistics from Europe and North America: Plasma donation is safe And commercial plasma donation is not less s...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

How safe is plasma donation?

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 Here's a story from the NYT, about the recent regularization of paid plasma donation in (some provinces of) Canada. How Safe Is Plasma ...
Friday, January 9, 2026

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

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The published version of our paper is now widely available: Kimberly D. Krawiec and Alvin E. Roth, “ WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Suffi...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Commercial plasma collection in the US: the Jaworski report for 2025

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 Peter Jaworski , a tireless student of blood donation around the world, has published a report on the plasma industry.  It's full of in...
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 ...