Showing posts with label transplants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transplants. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2024

Kurt Sweat defends his dissertation

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Kurt Sweat defended his dissertation this week. As you can see in the picture below, we celebrated with the traditional toast, but instead ...
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...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Cash for kidneys report in the Telegraph

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 The Telegraph has this story, by Samuel Lovett, Nandi Theint,  and Nicola Smith. For some reason I can't copy the headline, but the URL...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...
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, November 29, 2022

Motorcycles as donorcycles

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 Here's an article from JAMA Internal Medicine , noting that motorcycle rallies produce an increase in organ transplants. Organ Donation...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Reforming kidney care, by Drs. Ben Hippen and Thao Pascual.

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  Ben Hippen is a transplant nephrologist who I encountered not too long after I started to think about kidney transplants. I've always...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Crowdsourcing organ transplant ethics

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 In Slate, an upbeat article about the ethical issues associated with deceased organ allocation and (before that) access to dialysis, and th...
Friday, September 16, 2022

A milestone and a stepping stone: 1 million U.S. organ transplants

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 Here's the story from the AP, about the 1,000,000th transplant in the U.S., a milestone reached last Friday: US counts millionth organ ...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Access to transplantation around the world, at the International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2022) in Buenos Aires

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I'm attending the 29th International Congress of The Transplantation Society ( TTS 2022) | Buenos Aires - Argentina, and will speak in ...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Patient preferences for taking an offered kidney versus waiting for a better one

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  Here's a paper whose title announces in its first two words that it's unusual for the transplant literature: "Patient Prefere...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Gary Becker's last paper: appropriately, on a monetary market for kidneys (with Julio Elias and Karen Ye, JEBO, 2022)

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  Gary Becker , who passed away in 2014, has a new paper, finished by his coauthors Julio Elias and Karen Ye . It recounts how the shortag...