Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidney exchange. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Heroines of organ donation

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Last week I had the opportunity to see a screening of the movie Abundant , about non-directed organ donors, who have donated organs to stran...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Stanford conference on extending kidney exchange

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  We'll be welcoming many of our transplantation colleagues to a conference at Stanford today.     ######### Earlier: Tuesday, February...
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....
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Evicting Science from D.C.: the NSF building and it's History Wall

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 Evidently the NSF is taking up too much government real estate, here's the story from (appropriately enough) Scientific American: Trump...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Kidney and liver exchange in India

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 Here's an update from Dr. Vivek Kute and his colleagues on kidney and liver exchange in India. Kute, V. B., Patel, H. V., Banerjee, S.,...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Notes from Messina (kidney exchange and the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti)

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 We traveled last week from Prague to Sicily, for the Matching in Practice workshop in  Messina, which was rich in kidney exchange. I was...
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...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Matching Theory and Market Design: conference in Sicily.

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 Here's the preliminary program for the 20th Matching in Practice Workshop   University of Messina, Department of Economics, Aula Magna ...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

One Nation One Swap: National kidney exchange in India

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 In India, the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) wrote this week to all the State organizations (the SOTTOs) announc...
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...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Toledo celebrates Mike Rees

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 Here's the announcement from the University of Toledo: University Recognizes Faculty Members with Distinguished Honor  "Rees joine...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Kidney exchange: the donor stories, and the movie Abundant

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 I'm learning a bit about movie production by following the progress of the movie Abundant, which is about to have a pre-release premier...