Sunday, February 3, 2019

Kim Krawiec on repugnance, and global kidney exchange

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Kim Krawiec talks about podcasts, and then about repugnance with some of her old podcast pals at Oral Argument .  They talk about global ki...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Medically assisted death

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The Guardian and the BBC bring us up to date on death with dignity in the Netherlands. Here are some excerpts from the Guardian's lon...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Colleges harvest signals of interest in more ways

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Congested markets--those in which there are more potential transactions than can be easily processed--promote signaling, and the search for...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Understanding and misunderstanding algorithmic bias

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Adventures in Computation explains a recent political discussion: Algorithmic Unfairness Without Any Bias Baked In "Discussion of ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Kidney exchange in Germany? It will need an amendment to the Transplantation Act

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Axel Ockenfels points out that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung has a recent piece on "Tauschen wir die Nieren?" (...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Repugnant markets and black markets -- interview

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Here's a short interview on repugnant markets, in Stanford's engineering magazine: Repugnant markets spur thinking about how to e...
Monday, January 28, 2019

School choice in New Haven: studied by Kapor, Neilson and Zimmerman and switching from immediate to deferred acceptance

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The New Haven Independent reports on efforts to change school choice there: Profs Tapped To Fix School-Choice Lottery "Would knowin...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Black market kidney transplants to UK patients? An inflammatory article in the Daily Mail

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There seems to be good evidence that kidneys for transplantation are bought and sold in some parts of the world. However I'm not aware ...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Universal health coverage under siege from both the right and the left, in the U.S. and Mexico

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Here's a commentary in The Lancet, comparing attacks on the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. and on Seguro Popular in Mexico. A dark d...
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...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Kosher and halal slaughtering banned in Belgium

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The coalition of liberal animal rights activists and European anti-Semites and Islamophobes doesn't make the new laws easy to parse: ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Bounty hunters, licensing, and cellphone location data

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The Seattle Times has a disturbing article about a little-regulated private enterprise part of the criminal justice system in many American...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

National Kidney Foundation (NKF) statement

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A January press release from the NKF : NKF Statement: A Path Forward for Increasing Kidney Transplantation "Nearly 680,000 Americ...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Pharma pricing, and the secondary market for diabetes test strips

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The NY Times has the story on the gray market for diabetes test strips: The Strange Marketplace for Diabetes Test Strips "Test str...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Surrogacy as viewed from Spain (where it is illegal)

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Not late-breaking news, but here are some El Pais reports that reflect the ongoing situation in Spain: Spain struggles with surrogate pre...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Urology Residency Match

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Yesterday was Match Day for urologists, a medical specialty that runs its own residency match, in advance of the NRMP. They write: "...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Fifty years of "brain death"

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There was a time when death came in threes: neurological, respiratory, and circulatory processes all shut down more or less together, becau...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Carbon tax with revenue returned through equal lump-sum rebates: open letter

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An open letter from many economists, published today as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, proposes a carbon tax with the revenue to be r...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Organ donation in Germany

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Spiegel.de has the story: Nach langem Abwärtstrend, Zahl der Organspender deutlich gestiegen (GT: After a long downward trend, the number...