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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 …

Transplants under lockdown (but beginning to pick up)

Since the beginning of pandemic lockdowns, living donor kidney surgeries in the U.S. have almost ce…

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 …

Repeal of motorcycle helmet laws increases deceased donor transplants: Dickert-Conlin, Elder and Teltser in AEJ:Applied

I imagine that a law that anyone who dies while riding a motorcycle without a helmet is automatical…

More on the shortage of transplantable kidneys

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

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…

Transplantation in China: update

I returned Sunday from a busy and potentially productive trip to China. Since 2015 it has been ille…

President Trump's Executive Order on kidney care

On July 10, while I was in China, President Trump issued an executive order touching on all aspects…

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