Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Human organ trafficking and missing persons in China, PNAS

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 Here's a study, recently published in PNAS, that tries to very indirectly infer the rate of illegal organ trafficking in China.  It...
Monday, October 19, 2026

Moral Economics reviewed in American Journal of Transplantation

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 I wonder if this is the first time an economics book has been reviewed in the American Journal of Transplantation. Poetic justice: A review...
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

The University of Cincinnati celebrates Steve Woodle

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Dr. Steve Woodle, one of the pioneers of kidney exchange, is being honored in Cincinnati.  You can read of his many distinctions below, but ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The first 100 cases of organ donation after euthanasia in the Netherlands

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 Here's a controversial market with something for everyone to argue about: organ donation after euthanasia, including psychiatric patien...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Bob Montgomery, transplant surgeon and transplant recipient, in the NYT

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The NY Times has a story about the complicated life and busy career of NYU transplant surgeon Bob Montgomery, who is also a transplant recip...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Organ trafficking research

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 Frederike Ambagtsheer  is the principal investigator of a Dutch project conducting  organ trafficking research , whose website  discusses t...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

A passionate proponent of transplants is (temporarily) unregistered as a donor: Greg Segal in the NYT

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I'm a little shaken to learn that (even*) Greg Segal has temporarily suspended his registration as a potential deceased organ donor.  My...
Monday, September 7, 2026

A.I. in health care in Paris

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Here's tomorrow's conference agenda  for the opening day of the  Redefining Health Care in the Age of A.I. conference in Paris.  Phi...
Saturday, September 5, 2026

Redefining Healthcare in the Age of A.I., Paris, Sept 8-10

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 I'm in Paris, for the conference  Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI   "The Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Rege...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

How heart transplants gave birth to brain death (new book by Basil Baccouche)

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  Basil Baccouche has a forthcoming book, which I found pretty thrilling: The End of Death: A Surgeon, a Heart Transplant, and the Fight to...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Public attitudes towards deceased organ donation and allocation in china

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 Deceased  organ donation in China does not  yet have overwhelming public support although receiving a deceased donor organ transplant does:...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Deceased organ donation by Ashlagi and Roth in the Annual Review of Economics (with open questions)

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 Here's a review paper concentrating primarily on transplantation of  organs (primarily kidneys) from deceased donors. It closes with a ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Delayed feedback on a controversial talk--and some positive signals of potential for change

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 One feature of giving talks to unfamiliar audiences is that you only get noisy feedback on how your talk was received.  This past June, I g...
Monday, June 22, 2026

A rogue's gallery of transplant heroes (following ATC2026)

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 After my talk yesterday at the American Transplant Congress, I had lunch with a table of transplant heroes, Joe Tector , Peter Friend , J...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Starzl Lecture: "The Economics of Kidney Exchange," Sunday at the American Transplant Congress in Boston

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  I'll be speaking Sunday at the American Transplant Congress, on kidney exchange.  It will be hard to squeeze in all the recent develop...
Monday, June 1, 2026

The American Society of Transplantation prepares to consider a pilot study of financial incentives for living organ donation

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 As I prepare to speak later this month at the American Transplant Congress in Boston , I note that  the American Society of Transplantation...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Kidneys and Moral Economics in the Financial Times

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I spoke about economics with Keynes (Soumaya) in the FT: Nobel laureate Al Roth and the economics of organ sales      "The economist Al...
Friday, May 15, 2026

The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and Life-Saving Solutions: Debate at Hopkins, today

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Today's debate at Hopkins aims to focus on the proposed End Kidney Deaths Act.   The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and Life...
Friday, May 8, 2026

It’s time to carefully but urgently rethink payments to kidney donors. My op-ed in the Washington Post

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 This morning the Washington Post published my op-ed online (which is scheduled to appear in the print edition on Sunday). 800 words is hard...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Funeral expenses for deceased organ donors in Taiwan

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 In Taiwan, the Ministry of Health and Welfare helps pay for the funerals of deceased organ donors.  From the Taiwan Organ Sharing Registry ...