Saturday, July 16, 2022

Legal and illegal sales of body parts

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 U.S. law makes it illegal to sell deceased donor organs for transplant, i.e. to save a life, but it's otherwise legal to sell body part...
Friday, July 15, 2022

The Future of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (videos)

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On May 7, 2022 the University of Chicago hosted a Symposium on "The Future of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Evolving National Pe...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Allegations of organ trafficking for kidney transplants--in England and India

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 From time to time there are stories of prosecutions for organ trafficking in connection with kidney transplants. Here's a story develop...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Kidney exchange debate in Brazil

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 A discussion of kidney exchange in Brazil began with this letter to the editor, describing how kidney exchange (aka kidney paired donation)...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Evidence based medical policy: compensation for donors, by Luke Semaru and Arthur Matas in the AJT

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The American Journal of Transplantation has posted ahead of print a great article proposing clinical trials of a sensible system by which ki...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Medical assistance in dying: palliative care

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A lot of the discussion of medical assistance in dying has focused on assisted suicide, but there is also the question of trying to die well...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Texas inmate asks to delay execution for kidney donation

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 For all you practical ethicists out there, here's a story by the AP that has divided my email correspondents: Texas inmate asks to dela...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Prospects for improving kidney exchange in France

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A recent article in  Néphrologie & Thérapeutique simulates h ow kidney exchange in France could possibly be made substantially more effe...
Friday, July 8, 2022

FDA Contemplating Clinical Trials of Pig-Organ Transplants (WSJ)

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The WSJ has the story: FDA Planning to Allow Clinical Trials of Pig-Organ Transplants . Move could be an important step in effort to ease th...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Coordinating the timing of the market for new Economics Ph.D.s: guidance from the AEA

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 Here's an email broadcast by the American Economic Association, aimed to promote market thickness by avoiding unraveling and dealing wi...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Mark Braverman wins Abacus Medal (formerly Nevanlinna Prize)

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 Mark Braverman , a computer scientist whose work touches on mechanism design, has won the Abacus Medal of the International Mathematical U...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Cops and comedy: repugnant speech

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 The Guardian has a story about comedians who have been accused or charged with violating laws because of their acts. Recent cases involve j...
Monday, July 4, 2022

American data privacy, post Roe

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 As we plunge ahead into the post-Roe era, American laws about abortion are going to be very divided. Some states will seek to criminalize n...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Pregnancy in Poland, a database and anti-abortion laws

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 The Lancet recently reported on new pregnancy data being collected in Poland, and controversy on whether and how it might be used in enforc...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

SCOTUS on dialysis and DaVita

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  The Supreme Court delivered a number of decisions recently, and the news coverage has rightly focused on the decisions that will increase ...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Scott Cunningham's Mixtape Podcast Interview with Alvin Roth

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 Here's Scott Cunningham's Mixtape Podcast Interview with Alvin Roth ... "We discuss Gale and Shapley, Roth and Sotomayor, game...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Same sex marriage in Colorado: then and now

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In 1975, as the county clerk of Boulder County, Cela Rorex issued several marriage licenses to same sex couples, before the State Attorney G...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Medical aid in dying in Italy--a first

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 The NYT has the story: Man Paralyzed 12 Years Ago Becomes Italy’s First Assisted Suicide   By Elisabetta Povoledo "Paralyzed 12 years ...