Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Medical aid in dying comes up for a vote in England

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  The upcoming vote on legalizing medical aid in dying in England and Wales has attracted controversy along lines that will be familiar to r...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Nobel prize in economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson

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  " The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Stable matching in Scientific American

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  Here's a short article in Scientific American, describing the deferred acceptance algorithm and mentioning some uses for stable matchi...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Medical Aid in Dying Laws in the U.S.

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  JAMA has a review of the current state of medical aid in dying in the 12 U.S. jurisdictions (if Delaware proceeds) that now allow it. Medi...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil, continued (with pictures)

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  In August I posted about a trip to Brazil  with  Mike Rees  where we traveled with  Dr. Gustavo Ferreira , the director of transplantation...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

IV fluid shortages in the U.S.--perhaps we should allow international imports?

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There's a hurricane-induced shortage of intravenous (IV) fluid.  Maybe we should import some? (But...international borders...) An obstac...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

An own-goal in replication science--retraction of a paper that reported high replicability

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  A 2023 paper reporting high replicability of psychology experiments has been retracted from Nature Human Behavior . The retraction notice ...
Monday, October 7, 2024

October 7, 2023

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  There aren't enough days in the year to remember all of important history by naming a day, but some days stand out. The oldest one I k...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Technology and crime: cloning giant sheep

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  There are things you can go to prison for that wouldn't have been possible to do not long ago. The Washington Post is on the case: Ran...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

The NAS proposes that bans on studying marijuana and its effects should be relaxed

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 The National Academy of Sciences has just issued a new report on marijuana and public health.  Among their recommendations is that bans on ...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Nondirected liver donation in Canada--from the beginning

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The Ottawa Citizen has the story: The Gosling Effect: How one man (and his liver) forever changed Canadian health care. In 2005, Kevin Gosl...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

A bride- price auction: “the most expensive bride in South Sudan”

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  The Guardian has the story of a bride-price auction for a child bride in South Sudan: A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriag...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities.

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  The NYT has the story: California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities. The change will affect Stanford University, the Universi...