Showing posts with label nondirected donor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nondirected donor. Show all posts
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, April 10, 2025

Kidneys and Controversies at Mt. Sinai hospital

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 I gave a talk yesterday at Mt. Sinai hospital. They had encouraged me to talk about controversies, which I happily did.  They were a sympat...
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...
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...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Exceptional altruism: living organ donors who donate twice

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 Some living donors are moved to do it twice: first a kidney, and then later a liver, or the other way around. It appears that this is trend...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Kidney exchange chain at Ohio State--a gift transforms 20 lives

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  Here's a recent big kidney exchange chain, begun by a nondirected donor, involving patient-donor pairs all at OSU's medical center...