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Micro/Macroeconomics: Transplant Organ Project: News Articles

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News Articles

2020-2021

Penn Medicine News. May 12, 2020. “Steep Decline in Organ Transplants Amid COVID-19 Outbreak.”

UNOS. Jan 11, 2022. “All-time records again set in 2021 for organ transplants, organ donation from deceased donors.”

Possible Solutions

Stanford Graduate School of Business. Insights. Oct. 15, 2021. “A Beautiful Application: Using Economics to Make Kidney Exchanges More Efficient and Fair.”
Wall Street Journal. Jun. 24, 2018. "How to Provide Better Incentives to Organ Donor."
Science News. Oct. 2, 2019. ”How opt-out organ donation could affect US waiting lists."
New York Times. Feb. 26, 2019. "Britain, Trying to Boost Organ Donations, to Make Most Adults Presumed Donors."
Science News. Oct. 2, 2019. ”How opt-out organ donation could affect US waiting lists."
Science News. Sep. 4, 2019. ”New research offers solution to reduce organ shortage crisis."

Hawaii

Civil Beat. May 2, 2018. “Health Beat: Let’s Start Assuming People Want To Be Organ Donors : Hawaii could save lives and shorten the waiting list for transplants by requiring people to opt out of the program instead of opting in.”

Opinion Articles

Opinion (Op-Ed). News York Times. Jun. 11, 2019. "11,000 Americans Will Die Waiting for Transplants this Year." Includes a video (3:48 min.) and link to President's Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health Jul. 10, 2019.
Opinion (Op-Ed). News York Times. Aug. 20, 2019. "She Beat Cancer. Now, She’s in Another Fight for Her Life. Twenty Americans die each day waiting for organs. Here's how to change that."
Opinion (Letters). New York Times. Aug. 27, 2019. "Responses to an editorial from a transplant surgeon and a bioethics scholar."

Innovation

Wall Street Journal. Feb. 9, 2022. “The Next Pig Thing in Medicine.”

Research