Friday, April 24, 2020

Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber (1965-2020), who founded "Gift of Life" kidney donor organization

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Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber, who founded the Matnat Chaim ("Gift of Life") organization of kidney donors in Israel, has died of coronav...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Gaming organ allocation: Heart failure treatment responds to changes in the priority rules for heart transplants

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Recent changes in the allocation of deceased donor hearts for transplantation have focused on what kinds of mechanical interventions a pati...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Surrogacy finally becomes legal in New York

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Passed last month, to come into effect next year, New York follows most of the rest of the country into the American consensus on surrogacy...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Residential real estate sales, social distancing, and traditional marketplace institutions

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In some places, residential real estate is an essential service (open houses allowed) and in others not.  Virtual, internet showings are be...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Organ donation after medically assisted dying, in Canada

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In the New England Journal of Medicine, with many authors, Organ Donation after Medical Assistance in Dying — Canada’s First Cases Febru...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Bike matching in NYC

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Program Matches Bicycles To Essential Workers Who Need Them In New York  ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you're looking for ways that you can...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Covid-19 is now a leading cause of death in the U.S.

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The Washington Post has the story: Covid-19 is rapidly becoming America’s leading cause of death By Dan Keating and Chiqui Esteban ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Covid-19, kidney failure, and dialysis

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Corona virus and kidney failure are a bad combination, whichever way you look at it. On the one hand, Covid-19 is causing kidney failure. O...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Corona lockdown, and the food supply chain in India, by Matt Lowe and Ben Roth

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Matt Lowe and Ben Roth look at the effect of India's corona virus lockdown on the food arriving at the big wholesale produce market in ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Coronavirus information, mis-information, conspiracy theories, web search, and social media

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The coronavirus / Covid-19 pandemic is constantly generating new information, and misinformation.  How to separate them? A number of soci...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

John Horton Conway (1937-2020)

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John Horton Conway, the  John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computation Mathematics, Emeritus, at Princeton, passed away on April 11...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Teaching online: Singapore, NYC react to Zoombombing of online classes

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Some of us are old enough to remember when email didn't come with security concerns.  Things are moving faster these days, so it's ...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Behavioral Economics, Computation, and Game Theory, all in Budapest in July, or online...

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Here's the (appropriately cautious) announcement: Behavioral EC '20 2nd Workshop on Behavioral Economics and Computation The 2...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Market design seminars on Zoom, Monday afternoons in Paris

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For those of you missing your local market design seminars, here's a convenient substitute, Monday afternoons if you're in Europe, ...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Clearinghouses are hard to organize in a hurry: volunteer medical workers in NYC

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Many healthcare workers are willing and able to come to New York to help with the shortages that Covid-19 has created there.  But existing ...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Medical triage for Covid-19: if/when it comes to that, how should it be organized?

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So far I haven't heard of any actual medical triage in the U.S. in which life-saving treatment for Covid-19 is rationed.  There has be...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Plasma donation, "convalescent plasma" and Covid-19 antibodies

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Blood plasma is a big source of antibodies for people who don't make their own, and in these days of Covid-19 pandemic, antibodies are ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Allocating and reallocating scarce medical supplies

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An op-ed in USA today points out that shortages of critical hospital supplies are occurring and will continue to occur at different times i...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Transplantation slows in Canada, too...

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Ventilators in short supply may be part of the problem (since most deceased donations involve ventilators), but there's also a general ...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Eating cats and dogs banned in Shenzhen

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The distinction between pets and pet food just became a little clearer in Shenzhen. The BBC has the story: Shenzhen becomes first Chine...