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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…

Gaming organ allocation: Heart failure treatment responds to changes in the priority rules for heart transplants

Recent changes in the allocation of deceased donor hearts for transplantation have focused on what …

Transplantation slows in Canada, too...

Ventilators in short supply may be part of the problem (since most deceased donations involve venti…

Bangladesh loosens its restrictions on kidney donations

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

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…

Transplantation under scrutiny in Washington and the media: compilation of recent links by Greg Segal, via Frank McCormick

The organ transplant ecology is complex, with sometimes perverse incentives in the interfaces among…

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…

Germany sticks with opt-in donation for deceased donor organs for transplants

Axel Ockenfels points me to this story, in English, in Deutsche Welle: German parliament: Explicit …

Regulation of transplant centers and OPO's

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

Risk attitudes in transplantation--then and now

Organ transplantation has become much more organized since its early days, for both good and ill. T…

Deceased donor organs and nautical miles

UNOS has recently announced a new distribution system for deceased kidney and pancreas offers: inst…

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