Thursday, January 12, 2023

Surrogacy around the world and across international boundaries

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Here's a wide ranging survey of the literature on surrogacy practice around the world. Brandão, Pedro, and Nicolás Garrido. " Comme...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Kidney Transplantation Across International Boundaries

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  When global kidney exchange was first proposed it met with some hysterical reactions, equating it to organ trafficking.  It is good to see...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Cross-border transplantation between China and Hong Kong

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 Here are two recent reports of the first cross-border transplant between China proper and Hong Kong. From the Global Times: First organ don...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Non-compete clauses are anti-competitive: Lina Kahn (FTC chair) in the NYT

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  An op-ed this morning by the chair of the FTC explains her opposition to non-compete clauses in labor contracts (which are already non-enf...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Moral certainties versus moral tradeoffs

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  An article and a commentary in PNAS raise the possibility that  economists and psychologists and moral philosophers concerned with morally...
Saturday, January 7, 2023

It's hard to enforce the ban on cannabis in Kansas

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  Just as markets need social support, bans on markets need social support.  Even in Kansas, apparently, where marijuana remains completely ...
Friday, January 6, 2023

Nicotine will be with us for a long time--survey of middle school use

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 Sales of tobacco products to minors are generally illegal in the U.S., but a survey shows that doesn't stop children from smoking and v...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Sell a kidney to save a life? by Dylan Walsh, in WIRED.

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  Martha Gershun alerts me to this story which appeared this morning in WIRED, in which the author, a kidney transplant recipient (24 years...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

"It Is Time for Interventional Cardiology Fellowship to Join the National Resident Matching Program," say its leaders

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  The current appointment process for interventional cardiology fellows is early and congested, and programs feel obliged to make exploding ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Residency interviews, in person vs by zoom, at Stanford

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  Residency interviews in the digital era by Isabel Beshar1, William J Tate2, Dan Bernstein3  Postgraduate Medical Journal 98, no. 1166 (20...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Synthetic biology and the ethics of eating (Virgina Postrel in the WSJ)

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  Remarkable changes will keep coming.  Here's Virginia Postrel in the WSJ on how changes in the food supply might influence both repugn...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

New York State's Living Donor Support Act (LDSA, S. 1594) was signed by Governor Hochul on Dec. 29

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 Frank McCormick forwards this email: From: Elaine Perlman Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022 5:44 PM Subject: Governor Hochul Has Signed ...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

The year in passings

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 We come to the end of another long year. Saturday, December 10, 2022 Amnon Rapoport (1936-2022) Monday, October 17, 2022 Jacques Drèze (192...
Friday, December 30, 2022

The market for battlefield intelligence

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Here's a column from the Washington Post, which (although it reads partly like an ad from Palantir) emphasizes that real time battlefiel...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Towards greater gun safety in San Jose

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 The mayor of San Jose, CA, has some thoughts on making guns and gun ownership less dangerous, in a  NY Times opinion column: 400 Million Gu...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Designing queues for overloaded waiting lists, by Jacob Leshno

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 Here's a paper by Jacob Leshno , with a really creative new contribution to the (venerable) queuing literature.  Leshno, Jacob D. 2022....
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Suppressing vaping is hard

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  The WSJ has the story: Major effort needed to remove illegal vaping products, review finds. Group says FDA regulators are overwhelmed and ...
Monday, December 26, 2022

The once and future Pasteur Act to incentivize antibiotic discovery and development

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It doesn't look like Congress is going to act this year to pass the Pasteur Act. Here's the NY Times: Can a Federally Funded ‘Netfli...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Epicures and Duck Farms Get a Reprieve From New York’s Foie Gras Ban

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The WSJ has the latest turn of events in this long running story : Epicures and Duck Farms Get a Reprieve From New York’s Foie Gras Ban. The...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Fifty Years of a National Program for the Treatment of Kidney Failure

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 This JAMA viewpoint tells the story: Fifty Years of a National Program for the Treatment of Kidney Failure , by Kevin F. Erickson,  Melandr...