Thursday, January 4, 2018

Some ASSA sessions I would go to if I could, and some I'll certainly attend

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I'm going to be a busy boy at the AEA/ASSA meetings, since as president of the AEA I'll preside over many champagne receptions and ...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Change in Swedish law about sexual assault

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From The Guardian: Swedish rape law would require explicit consent before sexual contact "Sweden is moving closer to making changes...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Opioids and harm reduction: drug checking and Safe Injection Facilities

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From Mason Marks writing on the Bill of Health blog at Harvard Law School: The Opioid Crisis Requires Evidence-Based Solutions, Part I...
Monday, January 1, 2018

Is there an equivalence between (not) paying kidney donors and boxers or football players?

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Kim Krawiecz makes a point, in several installments: December 21, 2017 If You Oppose Paying Kidney Donors, You Should Oppose Paying Foot...
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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Why Don’t Americans Eat Horse?

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From Eater.com, a long interesting summary of Why Don’t Americans Eat Horse? The red meat is common in many cultures, but rarely makes it...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Law Review submissions

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Law reviews, often among the most prestigious publications for law professors, are unusual in a number of respects.*  They are edited by st...
Friday, December 29, 2017

The courts take an interest in organ allocation rules

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The rules for how deceased donor organs are allocated to patients needing transplants are set by a long-established, slow and thorough bure...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Organ donation in the UK: the particular case of children

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Children in need of transplants, particularly very young children, need appropriately sized organs, which can come from deceased donors of ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Wild (and abandoned) horses are starving, because we love them too much

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Chris Stewart, a horse-loving Republican congressman from Utah, writes in the NY Times: The Hard Truth About the West’s Wild Horse Proble...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Altruism is not a one-dimensional personality characteristic

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It's important to remember that people are complex. Teacher From Hudson Who Donated Kidney Busted For Drug Pushing The kidney donati...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Three stories of kidney donations (and one of a grinch that wants to limit them)

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I regularly see stories about kidney donation and kidney exchange: they've become so common that they are hardly news. But they are sti...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

The riskiest job in medicine

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 The November December Message from the ASTS President Jean Edmond refers to an auto accident involving the ambulance transporting a liver...
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