Showing posts with label nondirected donor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nondirected donor. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Kidneys: compensation and altruism

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 Apropos of my debate with Debra Satz this afternoon , here are two articles about kidney donation, from pure altruism or with compensation,...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Nondirected living kidney donors--Abundant (the movie, in progress)

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  Abundant is a movie in the making,  a documentary about altruism, focused on non-directed living kidney donors, who start kidney exchange...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Altruistic kidney donors in Israel

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  The Forward has the story Why Israel has more altruistic kidney donors than any other country in the world  By Michele Chabin "Israel...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

NYC police officer receives a kidney through Kidneys for Communities (KFC:)

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 Police magazine has the story of an anonymous living kidney donor who wanted his/her kidney to go to a first responder, facilitated by   Ki...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Compensating kidney donors: a call to action by Brooks and Cavanaugh in the LA Times

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 Here's a clarion call for compensation of living kidney donors, from two nondirected kidney donors.  It's not the first, and very l...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

The power of kidneys, altruism, and books. (And recommendation of a doctor in the UK)

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 Here's a story, about kidneys and about books, in inews.co.uk: ‘It’s a gift with no conditions attached’: Why I donated my kidney to a ...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

It's not so easy to become a living kidney donor: report from the Cleveland Clinic

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  It's not so easy to become a living kidney donor.  Here's a report on the pipeline at the Cleveland Clinic: Cholin, Liza K., Jesse...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Kidney exchange in The Times of India

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  The Times of India covers my talk at the Indian Society of Transplantation meeting: Alvin Roth for legal boost to kidney exchange pool in ...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Non-directed organ donors and NLDAC financial support

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For some years I've been a member of the advisory group of the National Living Donor Assistance Center ( NLDAC ) which is authorized to...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Three living kidney donors talk about their experience

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 Tonight at 6pm Eastern, three donor stories from the National Kidney Donation Organization ( NKDO ) Click Here to Register
Monday, August 8, 2022

Renewal: "My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat"

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  When reporter Stewart Ain needed a kidney transplant, he contacted Renewal . He explains the process that led to him being matched to an a...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Nondirected living liver donation in the U.S.

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Nondirected kidney donation has been important in U.S. kidney transplants for some time.  Here's a report observing that nondirected liv...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Kidneys on Kilimanjaro

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 The Washington Post has the story A group of organ donors is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this week. They each have one kidney.   By Cathy Fr...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Advertising, and kidney donation.

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The Guardian has the story: He put up a Times Square billboard in search of a kidney – and saved more lives than his own .  by Joshua Needel...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Vouchers in kidney exchange chains: a report of initial experience at NKR

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 Here's a report of the experience with kidney vouchers, pioneered at UCLA and the National Kidney Registry. That's a policy that ha...
Friday, May 28, 2021

Kidney to Share book launch, Zoom recording

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  Last week I had the pleasure of joining the discussion of the book Kidney to Share   by Martha Gurshun & John Lantos.  It was on Zoom,...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Kidney to Share

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 The  Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics is sponsoring a presentation tomorrow of a new book, Kidney to Share .  It's written largely...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Kidneys for Communities

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 A new organization,  Kidneys for Communities , plans to advocate for living kidney donation by seeking donors who identify with a particula...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber (1965-2020), who founded "Gift of Life" kidney donor organization

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Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber, who founded the Matnat Chaim ("Gift of Life") organization of kidney donors in Israel, has died of coronav...