Showing posts with label kidneys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidneys. Show all posts
Monday, November 10, 2025

Are transplants too scarce, or not scarce enough? A surprising debate about India

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 India, now the most populous country in the world, does the third highest number of kidney transplants in the world (although their rate of...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Xenotransplants go to (clinical) trial

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  Yesterday's post was about a man who received a pig kidney as an exceptional "compassionate use" case. But now some formal ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Xenotransplant of a pig kidney lasted nine months before failing (a new record)

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 No xenotransplant has lasted a year yet, but that's a target that now seems to be within reach for kidneys. (Kidneys are a more forgivi...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Xenotransplantation in Humans: pig organs edge closer to being clinically kosher

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  It has long been the conventional wisdom in transplantation that xenotransplants--transplanting a kidney from a genetically modified pig ...
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, June 1, 2025

Kidney Transplants in Pakistan. Many patients unaware that paying donors is illegal.

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Here's a recent paper on  "Barriers to Kidney Transplants in Pakistan.  A striking fact is that only 4.9% of patients with kidney f...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Deceased organ allocation: deciding early when to move fast

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The deceased donor waiting list for kidneys to transplant is congested: offers, which take time to evaluate, are often rejected, while cold ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Chronic diseases in the U.S.

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 The top three chronic diseases--Hypertension, Obesity, and Diabetes--all contribute to the fourth, Kidney Disease. How Chronic Disease Beca...