Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transplantation. 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...
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...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo

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It's Wednesday morning in Cairo, and here's today's conference  schedule , which will include discussion of (and voting on) glob...

Join the global call for change at DLE--Invitation to Cairo

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  After being invited to this week's  International Transplant Week in Egypt,  , I was invited to invite others.  (To hear my very brie...
Friday, November 7, 2025

International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025

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 I'm preparing to spend next week in Cairo at the Donate Life Egypt 2025 International Transplant Week , where I'll give a talk on T...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

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 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a cal...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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 Here's a forthcoming article in the Journal of Hepatology. Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first atte...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

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 Grace Guan defended her Ph.D. dissertation this past Friday. Welcome to the club, Grace.       Here's my earlier post about one of the...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

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 The arc of history turns towards technology. I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.  Evolving Ethical...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Transplants and trust

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Much of medicine's effectiveness depends on trust, and that is nowhere clearer than in organ transplantation, which depends on organ don...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Psycho-social criteria for being accepted as a transplant candidate

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 Not all decisions made in transplant centers are made on exclusively medical grounds.  Given the dire shortage of transplantable organs, ot...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

"Better to exchange kidneys than bombs."

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 Some coffee cups  should naturally come in pairs, so that you have one for a friend in need. (These recently arrived in the mail, from Laur...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Stanford conference on extending kidney exchange

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  We'll be welcoming many of our transplantation colleagues to a conference at Stanford today.     ######### Earlier: Tuesday, February...
Friday, August 1, 2025

US Waitlist Registrants who Received Transplantation Abroad

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 Here's a recent article about patients waiting for a deceased-donor organ transplant in the U.S. who (instead) received one overseas (a...
Monday, July 28, 2025

WHO Resolution on Kidney Disease and Transplantation

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The  78th World Health Assembly in May, 2025 recognized kidney failure as a global problem, with transplantation as the preferred treatment....