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Transplants dropped as Covid-19 rose, in France and the U.S.

In France, even more than in the U.S., kidney transplants were considered elective surgery. In the …

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

Rabbi Yeshayahu Haber, who founded the Matnat Chaim ("Gift of Life") organization of kidn…

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

The Washington Post has the story: Covid-19 is rapidly becoming America’s leading cause of death By…

Bangladesh loosens its restrictions on kidney donations

This story appears in New Age: henceforth Authentication Boards may allow a kidney to be donated by…

Good things to do after a kidney transplant: save an NHL game as an Emergency Backup Goalie (EBUG)

It turns out that in the NHL there is an Emergency Backup Goalie (EBUG) who is available to either …

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…

Lifetime medical insurance for kidney donors?

Reason has the story: New York Might Compensate You for Your Kidney But it's just health insura…

Kidney donation in Israel

In Israel, as in the U.S., a lot of living kidney donations to strangers come from people associate…

More on the shortage of transplantable kidneys

Here are some snips from the transcript of the Undark podcast, Solving the Deadly Transplantable Ki…

Lost Wages Support for Living Organ Donors Demonstration Project

HRSA (the Health Resources & Services Administration) has now funded a Lost Wages Support for L…

Alex Azar (Secretary of HH&S) writes about possible new kidney policies

In the New Hampshire Business Review, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv…

Are we discarding too many deceased donor kidneys in the U.S.? A comparison from France, in JAMA

Here's a recent article from JAMA, that several people have brought to my attention over the la…

The Iranian kidney market in Mashhad, by Mehdi Feizi and Tannaz Moeindarbari in Clinical Transplantation

Here's a new article in Clinical Transplantation: Characteristics of kidney donors and recipien…

Reducing discards of deceased donor kidneys

Some changes that could lead to transplantation of more deceased donor kidneys: KAPP Implements Rec…

Compensation of kidney donors in Chile: an estimate of benefits

A look into a possible future, from the December 2019 issue of the Latin American Economic Review: …

Removing disincentives to kidney donation, by McCormick et al. in J.Am.Soc.Nephrology

Here's the latest paper in an illuminating series on the costs and consequences of kidney donat…

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