Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Kidney exchange comes to Hungary

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Péter Biró   writes with good news about kidney exchange in Hungary.   Here's the announcement from the  University of Pécs, of the firs...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Kidney exchange in Brazil (a clinical trial)

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Here's a video in which Mike Rees , the founder of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation ( APKD ) describes how (with the help of a g...
Monday, January 12, 2026

History of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

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 The NSF has played a key role in American science, and risks being collateral damage in the war against science. Here is a their history we...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Four international kidney exchange programs: 3 achieve substantial success

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 Here's a paper reporting on the experience of four cross-border kidney exchange programs, whose experience teaches an important lesson....
Saturday, December 27, 2025

NKR in the NYT

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 Today's NYT has a story on the country's largest kidney exchange network, a private company with opaque finances called National K...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Kidney exchange updates

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 Here are three kidney papers and proposals that I've noted recently,  which will have implications for the growing interest in internat...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Union of Concerned Scientists celebrates the NSF

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 The Union of Concerned Scientists reminds us of some of many things government support of science has contributed to: What Do Duolingo, The...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo

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It's Wednesday morning in Cairo, and here's today's conference  schedule , which will include discussion of (and voting on) glob...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

Kidney exchange in Operations Research (and elsewhere)

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 Kidney exchange is an important medical innovation that has given rise to literatures not only in medicine but in economics, computer scien...
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...