Showing posts with label organs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organs. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

The market for kidneys is strong

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 "For 2025, Bickell expects the market for kidneys to be very strong." Alas, it's a story about kidney beans, from RealAgricul...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
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...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Organs, tissues, and medical devices are regulated very differently

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 Here's an article in JAMA by a Michigan doctor and his Congresswoman, on the lack of regulation for some substances of human origin. Ur...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Organ & Body Donations: John Oliver

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Laugh through the tears with John Oliver:
Monday, October 23, 2023

Waitlist equity, when not everyone can wait a long time, by Afshin Nikzad and Philipp Strack

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 Patients waiting for deceased donor kidneys are given priority in part by how long they have been on dialysis, while patients waiting for l...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Cryopreservation of organs for transplants, and Sebastian Giwa in Forbes

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 Forbes has a long, interesting, somewhat breathless story about the progress and promise of freezing organs for transplants, including not ...
Friday, February 17, 2023

A tale of two Organ Procurement Organizations, in JAMA Surgery

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 Here's a report of two Organ Procurement Organizations with very different rates of recovery of organs: Variability in Organ Procuremen...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

The costs of deceased donor organ recovery in the U.S., by Held et al. in the journal Transplantation

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 Here's the report of an investigation into organ procurement costs and finances: Cost Structures of US Organ Procurement Organizations ...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Organ and tissue procurement: back and forth between LA Times and OneLegacy

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Even in the era of social media, it remains difficult to conduct an argument with someone who buys ink by the truckload. The LA Times ran...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Kidney transport: a Tesla and a flat tire

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Transporting kidneys can be surprisingly informal.  Here's an account of a Tesla, a flat tire, and hitching a ride. Good Samaritan dr...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Australia's parliament reports on organ trafficking

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Australia's parliament has published a report on organ trafficking in Australia. They didn't find much trafficking there, but recom...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Organ donation and transplantation data from around the world

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The International Registry in Organ Donation and Transplantation   maintains an informative international database . Here's a list of ...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Organ preservation could bring big changes to transplantation

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Transplantation would be a lot less hectic if organs could be preserved. Here's a 42-author paper (the biggest coauthorship I've be...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

A look into how transplant centers are monitored (and organs are allocated)

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Here's a press release saying that the University of Pittsburgh's iconic transplant center has been taken off probation by UNOS. Th...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Transplant surgeons meet in Hong Kong amid questions about China's continued use of organs from executed prisoners

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The NY Times has the story:  Debate Flares on China’s Use of Prisoners’ Organs as Experts Meet in Hong Kong It discusses a recent article...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Mishaps while flying transplant organs

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This news story stopped with the plane, and doesn't say what happened to the organ... No one hurt when jet scheduled to pick up donor ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Some histories of organ transplantation

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I can't vouch for any of these...most are un-refereed internet pages...some starting with events reported from quite long ago, regardin...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

New reports that China to stop harvesting executed prisoners' organs

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But no word on how they propose to manage the transition from executed prisoners to developing a voluntary source of donated organs for tra...