Showing posts with label deceased donors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deceased donors. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Increasing kidney transplants by reducing discards of risky kidneys

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  Kidneys from deceased donors are too often discarded. Dr. Joshua Mezrich , a transplant surgeon at U. Wisconsin, writes in Stat about how ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Directed deceased donation of organs for transplant. (Legal in U.S. but not yet in Europe.)

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 It is legal in the U.S. for a deceased donor organ for transplant to be directed to a particular recipient, if the recipient is compatible ...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Experiments for organ allocation (an idea whose time may be coming)

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 Experiments to improve how deceased donor organs are allocated to waiting patients seem like a good idea... OPTN Task Force sets goal of ac...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Reporting and misreporting from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

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 Because there are shortages of organs for transplant, it is important to measure how successful Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) are ...
Monday, January 8, 2024

"Scraping poison off the bone": Transplants in China without organs from executed prisoners

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 Following a long period in which the bulk of China's organ transplants used organs from executed prisoners, there have been steady effo...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Pilot projects to speed deceased donor organ allocation

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I won't use the word "experiments" for fear of the evil eye, but the OPTN is planning to authorize 'pilot programs' to...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

What's ahead for U.S. organ allocation in the coming year

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 Here's the December announcement from HRSA of their plans for reforming organ procurement and allocation this year.   Organ Procurement...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Waiting for HRSA's request for bids to reorganize deceased organ recovery and allocation

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Frank McCormick's invaluable email newsletter includes this Bloomberg article on potential bidders who may emerge when HRSA puts out bid...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Organ & Body Donations: John Oliver

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Laugh through the tears with John Oliver:
Friday, August 11, 2023

Freezing (and then carefully warming) donor organs breaks the organ transplant time barrier (for rats, for the time being)

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  Here's a note in Nature Reviews Nephrology pointing out the longer term promise of the recent successful freezing, thawing, and transp...
Friday, July 21, 2023

The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System: participant statements

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 Yesterday's Senate Finance committee hearings on The Cost of Inaction and the Urgent Need to Reform the U.S. Transplant System are on v...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care --testimony on organ transplants, going on now

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Watch right now or listen later.  UNOS is not popular in the Senate.   https://www.c-span.org/video/?529461-1/health-advocates-testify-impro...