Showing posts with label global kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global kidney exchange. 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...
Monday, July 28, 2025

WHO Resolution on Kidney Disease and Transplantation

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The  78th World Health Assembly in May, 2025 recognized kidney failure as a global problem, with transplantation as the preferred treatment....
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Notes from Prague (kidney exchange, market design, and progress on a new book)

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I flew back to California yesterday, after spending some time in Czechia and Italy talking about kidney exchange.  Here is a video of the pu...
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...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Peter Singer interview in the NYT

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  The NYT interviews the eminent philosopher: Peter Singer Wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency   By David Marchese Q. "I think of y...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Kidney exchange chains between Israel and Cyprus

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 Israel Hayom has the story. (Itai Ashalgi's software gets a shout-out): Unprecedented Israel-Cyprus kidney exchange saves 8 lives.  Cro...
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...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Kidney Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

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 Kidney exchange isn't yet thriving in Latin America, but the basic infrastructure is in place. It would make a lot of sense to jumpstar...
Monday, May 6, 2024

The Design of Markets. Una Nobel Lecture (Two talks in Padua, on Tuesday and Wednesday)

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 Following my talk in Rome today , I'll be speaking in Padua tomorrow and Wednesday, first giving a seminar on controversial markets, an...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Call for kidney exchange in Jordan

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 Here's a paper by Jordanian transplant docs, pointing out that kidney exchange (and perhaps cross border kidney exchange) would be usef...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Spain, and prospects for global kidney exchange

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 Here's an article from a Portuguese hospital that has engaged in kidney exchanges with Spanish hospitals that have resulted in three tr...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Global disparities in kidney disease and care

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  Here's a report on the availability of treatment of kidney disease around the world.  If you are unlucky enough to have kidney failure...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Global pacemaker retransplantation

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  There are innovative approaches to global health care.  Here is one, that involves reusing pacemakers recovered from deceased donors and r...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Global kidney exchange between Denmark and U.S.

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 Here's a news story from North Carolina, home of one of the patient-donor pairs in the U.S.-Denmark kidney exchange, organized by the A...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Kidney Exchange: Within and Across Borders (video lecture).

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 Below is a video of my 40 minute talk at Berkeley on Monday, on Kidney Exchange: Within and Across Borders, at the final workshop on Mathem...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Kidney Paired Donation in Developing Countries: a Global Perspective

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 Vivek Kute and his colleagues argue that one of the lessons from the developing world is that kidney exchange can save many lives, but may ...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

First kidney exchange between Cyprus and Israel

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  The Cyprus Mail has the story First exchange kidney transplant between Cyprus and Israel, By Jonathan Shkurko, March 1, 2023 "The fi...