U.S. Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Representative Joe Courtney (D- CT) have introduced legislation to prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions in group health plans and in health insurance coverage for groups and individuals. For living organ donors, this is important news, because health insurance plans can and do consider living donation to be an “pre-existing condition” that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kidney transplants’
Get involved: Pre-Existing Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged How you can help, Kidney transplants, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplant legislation, Spread the word on June 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A rockin’ finale on 30 Rock: “He Needs a Kidney!”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Famous organ transplant advocates, Funnies, Kidney donation, Kidney transplants, Living organ donation, Spread the word on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been traveling all over the world lately and am woefully behind on my TV watching… so I’m super late in pointing out the simply-best-ever musical finale of a quirky sit-com in the history of television. My heros at NBC’s show 30 Rock have written living organ donation into their plot for their last two [...]
A mathematical approach to kidney donor chains
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Altruistic donation, Kidney donor chains, Kidney transplants, Non-directed donation, Organ transplant ethics, Paired donation, Paired exchanges, Transplant ethics, Transplantation ethics on April 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This terrific and thoughtful blog post is WAAAAY over my non-math-oriented head, but I enjoyed reading it … so I’m sure any of you who are more mathematically inclined will enjoy it even more.
The blogger writes about a married couple — mathemetician Sommer Gentry and Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Dorry Segey — who were principal researchers [...]
Tweet this: Just Opened up – Kidney Looks Lovely
Posted in Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplant ethics, Organ transplants, tagged Kidney transplants, Living organ donation, Organ transplants, Transplant innovations on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Transplant surgeons “tweeting” from the operating room during kidney surgery? I LOVE technology!
(For those of you not hip to Millenial lingo, “tweeting” means posting brief updates to Twitter.) Thanks, Meghan, for sending me the link!
