Monday, March 21, 2016

Transplanting kidneys that are infected with hepatitis C (to uninfected patients) or HIV (to already infected patients) to ease the organ shortage

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Two stories, one on Hep C kidneys to uninfected patients, another on HIV kidneys to patients already infected with HIV. Here's the fi...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Rabbi (and kidney donor)i Shmuly Yanklowitz on Judaism and organ donation (video)

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Rabbi (and kidney donor) Shmuly Yanklowitz speaks about organ donation, drawing on Jewish sources, in this 14 minute video: HT: Max ...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Stable marriage without the deferred acceptance algorithm

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WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler March 12, 2016 HT: James J. O'Donnell, MD.
Friday, March 18, 2016

Match Day for new doctors

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Today is Match Day, when graduating medical students find out where they will do their residency. MAR 18 Match Day! Applicants :  Me...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Transplants in Germany, further discussion of changing the transplant law, in Der Tagesspiegel

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My op-ed in Der  Tagesspiegel yesterday on changing the German transplant law has drawn some prompt further comment in today's paper (...

German organ transplant law should be amended or reinterpreted to allow kidney exchange: my op-ed in Der Tagesspiegel

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During my recent visit to Germany, I spoke with a number of people about the fact that the German transplant law effectively outlaws kidney...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Slides from the American Society of Transplantation CEOT meetings

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Many of the slides from the recent meeting of the American Society of Transplantation meeting in Phoenix are now available by clicking on t...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Lloyd Shapley: obituaries, and memories

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I've been asked to write a short "intellectual obituary" about Lloyd's work, which I'll try to do in the coming days....
Monday, March 14, 2016

Promoting kidney exchange in Germany: Axel Ockenfels and Thomas Gutmann

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In Germany, kidney exchange isn't legal (German law only permits a patient to receive an organ from a member of his immediate family). ...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

The market for photographs: "Man - 60 years and older"

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Photographs for sale can be either of specific individuals or "stock photos" of generic images. Here's a picture of me that s...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Lloyd S. Shapley 1923- 2016

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I turned on my phone after landing from Frankfurt, and found an email from Lloyd's son Peter Shapley, saying that Lloyd  passed away in...
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Cass Sunstein for Chair of the President's Council of Psychological Advisors

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The Council of Psychological Advisers Cass R. Sunstein  Harvard Law School January 2016 Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 67, pp. 7...
Friday, March 11, 2016

German press coverage

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One of the themes that has struck a chord with the German press during my visit is that refugee resettlement is a matching problem: Hande...
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Who Gets What and Why in Frankfurt, at the German National Library

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I'll be speaking about Who Gets What and Why in Frankfurt today at the German National Library: Einladung zur Veranstaltung mit Alv...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

NY Times report on incompatible kidney transplants

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The New York Times has an article about a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine which reports that an incompatible kidney, t...

Who Gets What and Why in Cologne: Wer kriegt was?

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Today I speak in Cologne... Nobel laureate Alvin E. Roth asks: Who Gets What – and Why? Are you one of those people who believe tha...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Who Gets What and Why at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), in Berlin.

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I'm in Berlin to speak about Who Gets What and Why... Wednesday, March 09, 2016, 07:00 pm Who Gets What and Why: The New Econom...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

James Hathaway: Plan for, rather than simply react to, refugee movements

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Mitu Gulati points me to this piece by James Hathaway: A global solution to a global refugee crisis JAMES C. HATHAWAY 29 February 2016 ...
Monday, March 7, 2016

First paired kidney exchange transplant done in Singapore

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Here's the story from the Straits Times, about a short non-directed donor chain:   First paired kidney exchange transplant done in Sing...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Kidney exchange: a European research initiative

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Here's an announcement of a European research initiative:  European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programmes
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Penn celebrates differential privacy (and an application to anti-terrorism surveillance)

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Briefly on Penn's front web page , here's the story. Balancing Privacy and Security in Network Analysis Something about the pict...

Unified enrolment in Oakland

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The NY Times has an article about controversies in Oakland public schools, including about the prospect of instituting a unified enrollment...
Friday, March 4, 2016

NYC High School Match Day

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If you are a NYC 8th grader, or have one in your family, this is a big day. Good luck! Chalkbeat has the story (with links to their earli...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Sri Lanka Destroys Illegal Elephant Tusks

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 The NY Times has the story:  Sri Lanka Destroys Illegal Elephant Tusks "A group of saffron-robed monks chanted as officials crus...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Signaling English language proficiency with video interviews

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Colleges are increasingly availing themselves of video and internet technology to assess language skills of foreign applicants: see e.g. th...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

First Uterus Transplant in the U.S., at the Cleveland Clinic

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Uterus transplants were pioneered in Sweden, where surrogacy is illegal . But there is also demand in the U.S. The NY Times has the story...