Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Paradox of Protection: Overregulation Threatens Living Kidney Donation in Mexico,

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  Protections intended to thwart organ trafficking may inadvertently also "protect" legitimate patients and donors from receiving ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Mexico focuses on cross-border gun traffic after U.S. designates drug cartels as terrorists

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  Politico has the story (from the Associated Press): Mexico to reform constitution in wake of US terrorism designations The move by the Tru...
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...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Mexico’s Law Suit Against US Gun Dealers

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U.S. gun dealers are protected against lawsuits stemming from crimes committed by their customers. by the  Protection of Lawful Commerce in ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Guns and drugs on the U.S. Mexico border

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 Here are two stories about some of the illegal traffic on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. First, the war on drugs is fought with A...
Friday, March 3, 2023

Kidney exchange in Mexico

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  Here's a report from the journal  Cirugia y Cirujanos   (Surgery and Surgeons) on the experience with kidney exchange (aka kidney pair...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The trade in guns and drugs on the Mexico-US border

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 It's well known that a lot of illegal drugs enter the U.S. over the border with Mexico.  Less well known in the U.S. is that a lot of g...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

The market for hitmen

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Why are laws against hitmen more effective in most of the world than laws against drug dealers?  Yesterday's post was about a paper tha...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Universal health coverage under siege from both the right and the left, in the U.S. and Mexico

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Here's a commentary in The Lancet, comparing attacks on the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. and on Seguro Popular in Mexico. A dark d...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

A television interview on kidney exchange in Mexico (video)

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Here's a short video that ran on Mexican tv, with a one minute introduction in Spanish, and then 11 minutes in English with Spanish sub...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Kidney exchange takes another step forward in Mexico: Pro-Renal

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My recent visit was to speak about kidney transplantation in Mexico, and to raise awareness of and support for the new kidney exchange n...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Forbes Health Forum in Mexico City, May 23

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I'm travelling to Mexico today, to speak about kidney exchange at a health forum sponsored by Forbes, and to meet with colleagues at Pr...