Showing posts with label risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk. Show all posts
Friday, November 28, 2025

Facing up to face transplants: Pioneering transplants and their pioneering patients

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The history of transplantation involves not only pioneering surgeons, but also pioneering patients.  Face transplants are yet another comple...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Harry Markowitz (1927-2023)

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 Harry Markowitz, who invented modern portfolio theory, and did much beside, has died. Here's his NYT obituary, which was apparently pre...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Transplantation: progress and continued shortcomings

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 Here's a guest essay from the NYT that focuses on a different set of shortcomings of organ transplantation than organ availability. The...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Blood donation, risk groups, and blood tests

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  Before blood tests were developed for hepatitis virus and later for HIV, it made sense to screen potential blood donors by whether they we...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Ethical payment for research participation

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  Discussions of ethical questions turn out to have less math or data than other discussions, but more, well, discussion...  Here's our ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Compensating challenge vaccine trial participants: further discussion in the American Journal of Bioethics

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  The AJB invites commentaries on its target articles, and the comments on our article on payments in human infection challenge trials have ...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Paying participants in challenge trials of Covid-19 vaccines, by Ambuehl, Ockenfels, and Roth

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  Here's a new short paper in Journal of Medical Ethics: (it's ungated, you can read it all at the link):  Payment in challenge stud...