Thursday, July 21, 2022

Gender neutral words in gendered languages

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Novel pronouns haven't been widely adopted in English, but committees now have chairs or chairpersons, and there are some attempts not m...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Debate on international surrogacy in Norway

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 In Norway, where surrogacy is illegal, there is a debate about whether surrogacy conducted legally in other countries should also be crimin...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Reducing the costs of preparing for high stakes exams by reporting scores coarsely

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 In many countries, national exams serve as the gateway to college admissions and other prizes, and many applicants incur great costs in tim...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Ariel Pakes wins the Nemmers Prize

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 Here's the announcement of the Nemmers Prize, from Northwestern University: Northwestern announces 2022 Nemmers Prize winners. Biennial...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Follow market design on twitter

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 I don't have a twitter account, but for those of you who do, there are some accounts that tweet daily about market design and adjacent ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Legal and illegal sales of body parts

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 U.S. law makes it illegal to sell deceased donor organs for transplant, i.e. to save a life, but it's otherwise legal to sell body part...
Friday, July 15, 2022

The Future of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (videos)

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On May 7, 2022 the University of Chicago hosted a Symposium on "The Future of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Evolving National Pe...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Allegations of organ trafficking for kidney transplants--in England and India

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 From time to time there are stories of prosecutions for organ trafficking in connection with kidney transplants. Here's a story develop...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Kidney exchange debate in Brazil

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 A discussion of kidney exchange in Brazil began with this letter to the editor, describing how kidney exchange (aka kidney paired donation)...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Evidence based medical policy: compensation for donors, by Luke Semaru and Arthur Matas in the AJT

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The American Journal of Transplantation has posted ahead of print a great article proposing clinical trials of a sensible system by which ki...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Medical assistance in dying: palliative care

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A lot of the discussion of medical assistance in dying has focused on assisted suicide, but there is also the question of trying to die well...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Texas inmate asks to delay execution for kidney donation

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 For all you practical ethicists out there, here's a story by the AP that has divided my email correspondents: Texas inmate asks to dela...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Prospects for improving kidney exchange in France

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A recent article in  Néphrologie & Thérapeutique simulates h ow kidney exchange in France could possibly be made substantially more effe...
Friday, July 8, 2022

FDA Contemplating Clinical Trials of Pig-Organ Transplants (WSJ)

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The WSJ has the story: FDA Planning to Allow Clinical Trials of Pig-Organ Transplants . Move could be an important step in effort to ease th...