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Kidney exchanges and Shapley values

Here's a paper aimed at thinking about kidney exchange cooperation among European national kidn…

Kidney Exchange: an Operations Perspective by Ashlagi and Roth

Here's a survey that puts some emphasis on the many changes in the design of kidney exchange op…

Convalescent plasma collection and distribution

Efforts to collect and distribute convalescent plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients are ramping …

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

So far I haven't heard of any actual medical triage in the U.S. in which life-saving treatment …

The organ as a fictitious commodity, by Nicolas Brisset

Here, in French (and in English via Google Translate) an effort to understand, from writings on the…

Compensation for kidney donors? Opt in or opt out? The BBC and The Rift revisit the debates.(featuring Sally Satel and Frank McCormick)

The BBC covers the shortage of transplantable organs, and reviews the debate about compensating liv…

Kidney exchange at the 34th Advanced HLA Technical Workshop

I'll be speaking tomorrow morning, March 4, at the 34th Advanced HLA Technical Workshop ,  at t…

NSF 70th Anniversary Symposium--the video

I recently attended the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the National Science Foundation , a …

Bob Montgomery, a transplant surgeon with a (new) heart, in the WSJ

The WSJ has the story: A Transplant Surgeon Is Operating Again—With a New Heart Robert Montgomery h…

Long kidney exchange in Ammedabad, India

Vivek Kute writes with the news: IKDRC completes India’s longest cross-transplant chain "Insti…

Patricia Kravey on non-directed organ donation

From my recent email, a nuanced yet inspiring story from non-directed donor Patricia Kravey. "…

National Kidney Donor Advocate Conference, in April, in NY: Update--Postponed!

Here's a heads up on the 1st Annual National Kidney Donor Advocate Conference  on Friday, April…

Sam Trejo on non-directed kidney donation (in the LA Times)

It's always good to hear from former students. Sam Trejo writes: "Hi Dr. Roth, I'm Ph…

Kidney Exchange in Israel (supported by Itai Ashlagi)

Dr. Tamar Ashkenazi, the head of the Israel National Transplant Center, writes in Maariv : בשורה חש…

Kidney exchange, in French, in Forbes

Here's a short interview in French about kidney exchange, in Forbes France: Alvin Roth, Lauréat…

Kidney exchange explained in 1 minute (video), and a BBC story

Here's a link to a 1 minute BBC video that was recorded when I was in Berlin recently , discuss…

KIDNEY EXCHANGE AND THE ETHICS OF GIVING by Philippe van Basshuysen

Philippe van Basshuysen considers various forms of kidney exchange, including non-directed (altru…

Effective altruism and (non-directed) kidney donation

In their Christmas day discussion, the podcast Here Be Monsters considers the Quality Adjusted Life…

Scandia Transplant Kidney Exchange Program (STEP) takes its first steps

Here's a timely story of gift giving from the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden: Karolin…

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