Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts

Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors.

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap?   Top of Mind with Julie Rose | BYU radio
 

"There are more than 100,000 people on the waitlist for an organ transplant. Every day 17 of them die. Most organs for transplant come from deceased donors. But the organs in highest demand for transplantation are kidneys and livers – both of which can be donated while a person is still alive. So, we could save thousands of lives each year if more people were willing make a living organ donation. Some advocates say giving donors money would increase organ donations enough to eliminate the entire waitlist. But federal law makes it illegal to buy or sell organs. Ethicists have real concerns about coercion and exploitation, too. In this podcast episode, we're exploring America's organ shortage and asking whether paying donors could close the gap.  
Guests:
David Galbenski, liver transplant recipient and co-founder of the Living Liver Foundation (https://livingliver.org/)

Elaine Perlman, kidney donor, Executive Director of Waitlist Zero and leading advocate for the End Kidney Deaths Act (http://waitlistzero.org/)

Kathleen McLaughlin, journalist and author of Blood Money; The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry

Al Roth, Nobel-prize winning economist, Stanford University, expert in market design and game theory (https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/)"


I'm interviewed at the end of the podcast, starting at minute 39:

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

International transplant data from 2023

 Here's an interesting set of maps and tables compiled by the European Committee on Organ Transplantation of the Council of Europe (CD-P-TO), together with the Spanish Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT) from data submitted by many countries (mostly presented on a per-million-population basis).

NEWSLETTER TRANSPLANT 2024
International figures on donation and transplantation 2023  

INTERNATIONAL FIGURES ON ORGAN, TISSUE & HAEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR CELL DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION ACTIVITIES. PRODUCED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMITEE (PARTIAL AGREEMENT) ON ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION (CD-P-TO) OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE. YEAR 2023.  Editor: Beatriz Domínguez-Gil
 

Here are two tables that caught my eye as I looked at kidney transplants and kidney exchange...