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Organ donation after medically assisted dying, in Canada

In the New England Journal of Medicine, with many authors, Organ Donation after Medical Assistance …

Organ sharing in San Diego--UNOS Region 5 educational collaborative

I'll be flying to San Diego later this morning to take part in the UNOS Region 5 Educational Co…

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…

The organization of organ donation: Jennifer Erikson and Abe Sutton call for an Office of Organ Policy

White House staffers from two very different administrations call for a reorganization of organ don…

Regulation of transplant centers and OPO's

I'll be speaking this morning on regulation of transplantation at the 2020 Winter meetings of t…

Kidney donor athlete: Steve

Kidney donors have to be in excellent health, and the site Kidney Donor Athletes celebrates some e…

Sharing good health: a nice turn of phrase about kidney exchange

This struck me as a nice turn of phrase: On Paired Kidney Donation: ‘ Good Health is Never Somethin…

Dead pigs and live brain cells--with implications still to be understood

Dramatic scientific announcements get press coverage before they are well (or at all) understood, b…

Podcast on non-directed kidney donation as an act of effective altruism

Here's a very personal discussion  about becoming a non-directed donor. The Neoliberal Podcast …

Followup on the latest Freakonomics kidney exchange chain

Earlier this month I blogged about a kidney exchange chain at Virginia Mason Hospital, in Seattle,…

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