Showing posts with label organ donation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organ donation. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Jennifer Mnookin to be Columbia University's next president

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Among President Mnookin's many accomplishments is one that I haven't seen mentioned in the announcements of her appointment.     Her...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Organ procurement centers (OPOs) are responding to changes in their performance evaluations (by Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)

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 Here Bae H, Sweat KR, Melcher ML, Ashlagi I. Organ Procurement Following the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Performance Evaluat...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Helping potential kidney donors lose weight to qualify: Project Donor at RISC

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 Many potential kidney donors fail to qualify for reasons involving their own health status. Most commonly they are asked to lose weight bef...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Kidney and liver donation: the movie trailer for Abundant

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  You can see the 1.5-minute trailer for the movie here , or here . ########## Earlier:  Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Abundant: a moving docu...
Friday, September 20, 2024

HRSA has accepted bids to reform deceased donor organ allocation

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 Here's yesterday's HRSA press release. (Item 2, Supporting OPTN IT Modernization, might be of most interest to most readers of this...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

How Do Financial Obstacles Affect Decision-Making Among Potential Living Organ Donors?

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  Here's a report on the effects of helping living organ donors with their expenses. Mandell, Rebecca J., Abigail R. Smith, Kimberly A. ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

An Experimental Study of the Chinese Organ Allocation System

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 China presently has a low rate of organ donations per million population, so there's a lot of room for growth.  Here's a study sugg...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Performance Feedback and Organ Donor Registrations, by House, Lacetera, Macis, and Mazar.

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 When you register for a driver's license in the U.S., you fill out a form that has an opportunity to register as an organ donor. Did th...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Don't take "No" for an answer in deceased organ donor registration (a paper forthcoming after ten+ years)

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 Here's a paper reporting a "field in the lab" experiment with actual organ donor registrations, that took over ten years to g...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Kidneys for Communities and first responders

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The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York receives national award for helping its members and first responders nationwide ba...
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,...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Experiments for organ allocation (an idea whose time may be coming)

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 Experiments to improve how deceased donor organs are allocated to waiting patients seem like a good idea... OPTN Task Force sets goal of ac...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Legislative proposals to help living kidney donors

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 Martha Gershun brings us up to date on various proposed pieces of legislation to help organ donors and increase access to transplants. Legi...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC): I rotate off the advisory board

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  After seven years, I'm rotating off the advisory board of the  National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC). During that time, NLD...
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...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Organ donation day in Germany

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  Yesterday was organ donation day in Germany. Here's a post from the German Health Economics Association (DGGÖ):  Day of Organ Donation...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Freakonomics replay and update on kidney exchange and organ donation

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  Freakonomics Radio yesterday revisited some of their old podcasts about kidney exchange. In one, they interview me, and in another, they i...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Song of the year Grammy award for organ donation: Bonnie Raitt - Just Like That

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Stephanie Wang alerts me to the surprising fact that this year's Grammy Award for Song of the Year is Bonnie Raitt's song, Just Lik...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Donate blood or organs to pay a traffic fine or shorten a prison term?

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I spend a lot of my time thinking and writing about repugnant transactions and controversial markets, and some of that intersects with my wo...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Organ donor joke from the Edinburgh fringe

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 “ My dad suggested I register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart. ”  That's a joke by Masai Graham, who won the most popul...