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Kidney transplantation is a superior treatment strategy than chronic dialysis for end-stage renal disease patients. However, there is a severe shortage of cadaveric kidneys that are available for transplantation. Therefore many patients are turning to living donors. We describe four models of incentives to improve rates of living kidney donation: the market compensation model, the fixed compensation model, no-compensation model and the expense reimbursement model. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these models. Any incentive to improve rates of living kidney donation must be accompanied by safeguards. These safeguards will prevent living donors from being viewed primarily as a resource for transplants. These safeguards will also prevent vulnerable individuals from being coerced into donation and will monitor long-term outcomes of donors using a donor registry. We recommend the use of the expense reimbursement model along with these safeguards, in order to increase rates of living kidney donation.

It is making over its state Medicaid program known as TennCare. If this program gets implemented, many of the poor, elderly, children and disabled in Tennessee who rely on Medicaid will be told simply to get over it. And other hard-pressed states may well follow suit

Parents panicked about autism are wrong to be concerned about the MMR vaccine as the cause of this terrible explosion. Whatever is causing the surge in autism, getting vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) is not it

Recently, something happened that threatens the integrity of the organ transplant system. Todd Krampitz, a 32 year-old Houston man, decided he should not have to wait. He knew cancer was destroying his liver. He and his wife mounted a media campaign asking the nation to give him an organ. He was not encouraging people to donate their organs. He wanted them to donate to Todd Krampitz. Todd Krampitz cut in line

What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative by Daniel Callahan is reviewed

It is making over its state Medicaid program known as TennCare. If this program gets implemented, many of the poor, elderly, children and disabled in Tennessee who rely on Medicaid will be told simply to get over it. And other hard-pressed states may well follow suit

Parents panicked about autism are wrong to be concerned about the MMR vaccine as the cause of this terrible explosion. Whatever is causing the surge in autism, getting vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) is not it

It is making over its state Medicaid program known as TennCare. If this program gets implemented, many of the poor, elderly, children and disabled in Tennessee who rely on Medicaid will be told simply to get over it. And other hard-pressed states may well follow suit

Parents panicked about autism are wrong to be concerned about the MMR vaccine as the cause of this terrible explosion. Whatever is causing the surge in autism, getting vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) is not it