Sunday, September 17, 2017

Yemenis selling kidneys in Egypt: Al Jazeera

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Al Jazeera has the (nuanced) story: Desperate Yemenis sell organs to survive Victims of trafficking rings say the networks operate anonym...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Sven Seuken appointed Chief Economist of BandwidthX

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Here's the press release: BandwidthX Appoints Sven Seuken as Chief Economist Prof. Seuken’s appointment underlines the importance of...
Friday, September 15, 2017

An optimistic view of transplants in China from the Washington Post

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I've written a number of posts linking to optimistic stories about China's move away from using executed prisoners as sources of o...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

An Invitation to Market Design by Kominers, Teytelboym and Crawford

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Scott, Alex and Vince have written an introduction to what I gather is a special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy devoted to m...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Kidney exchange proposed for Qatar

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Here's a story from the Gulf Times. Kidney donation: Qatar study reveals incompatibility "Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) has eme...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Global kidney exchange and repugnance in the AJT: comments and replies

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The forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Transplantation is going to have a number of conflicting views about Global Kidney Exchan...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Kidney exchange in Switzerland in 1999, and some early repugnant reaction

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Kidney exchange is well established and growing in Europe today, but the first exchange was greeted in some quarters as a repugnant transa...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Why don't museums sell art (except to buy more art)?

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Brian Frye over at the Faculty Lounge published three nice posts about the professional repugnance that art museums have about selling art....
Saturday, September 9, 2017

The Nephrology fellowship match

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Nephrology is a subspecialty that has required fellowship programs to participate in the match ("All In") Perspectives on the N...
Friday, September 8, 2017

The Medical Physics Residency Match

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Ethical violations and discriminatory behavior in the MedPhys Match Kristi R. G. Hendrickson, Titania Juang, Anna Rodrigues, Jay W. Bu...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

U.S. transplant patients from overseas

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Here's a paper presented at the ISODP meeting in Geneva, concerning which foreign patients receive deceased-donor organs in the U.S.   ...
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Organ Donation in Geneva

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I'll be attending the 2017 Organ Donation Congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement, September 6-7 in Ge...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

UNOS proposal: Allowing Deceased Donor-Initiated Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Chains

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Earlier I posted about our 2016 paper proposing that some kidney exchange nondirected donor chains be started with deceased donor kidneys. ...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Scott Kominers' Market design course at Harvard

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http://scottkom.com/courses/Market-Design_2017-2018/index.html Date Topic Guest(s) September 5, 2017 Introduction/Overview September 1...
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Sunday, September 3, 2017

The Iranian kidney market--Associated Press

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The Associated Press has a nice story on the Iranian market in which donors can be compensated for kidneys. Here's the version in the D...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

AEA continuing education programs, demise of AER P&P and other AEA announcements

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Those of you who are members of the American Economic Association recently received an email with several announcements. Here are some that...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Matching refugees to localities once they have been granted asylum

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Here's a new paper by Jones and Teytelboym: The Local Refugee Match: Aligning Refugees’ Preferences with the Capacities and Prior...