Thursday, August 31, 2023

The underbelly of the global art market (NYT)

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 Art is not just art, it's also an investment opportunity, and one that evades many of the regulations that apply to investments recogni...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Minimal envy mechanisms, by Julien Combe

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 Here's an article I missed when it came out online: Reallocation with priorities and minimal envy mechanisms , by Julien Combe, Economi...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

OB-GYN doctors will use a new application system to apply to residency programs (but will continue to go through the NRMP resident match)

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  Before new doctors can participate in the resident match (by engaging with the NRMP), they first have to apply to residency programs, and ...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Unclaimed bodies and medical school anatomy classes.

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 There's a long history of unclaimed bodies being used in medical school anatomy classes. (I think the historical availability of such c...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

THE 18TH CONGRESS OF ASIAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION (CAST) 25 -28 August 2023 • Hong Kong

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Tonight, Sunday, at 5:30pm California time, I'll be opening the Monday morning session in Hong Kong of the  THE 18TH CONGRESS OF ASIAN S...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Challenge trials for a Hepatitis C vaccine

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  The Journal Clinical Infectious Diseases has a special supplement on challenge trials (human infection trials) of a Hep C vaccine (now tha...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Twenty Years of Marginal Revolution--econ blog pioneers

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Economics in the 21st Century has blossomed, including new ways for economists to earn our livings.  Together with and alongside of that hav...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Before pig kidneys can be transplanted into human patients...

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 Here's a paper in the Lancet suggesting some of the work that remains before pig kidneys can be transplanted into human patients: Immun...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Transplanted pig kidney functions for a week in brain dead patient

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 Here's a report on a kidney from a genetically engineered pig, that was transplanted into a brain dead patient maintained on a ventilat...