Consent: criteria should be drawn up for tissue donors

Should Campaign Donors Be Identified?

Entry criteria should be scrapped.

The news that the UKCC Education Committee has considered a paper proposing the cessation of the DC test is very welcome. ('Cheating allegations could lead to DC test being scrapped', News, January 25).

Should kidney donors be genotyped for APOL1 risk alleles?

Clinical nephrology has advanced rapidly due to recent breakthroughs in genomic medicine. Several forms of nephropathy heretofore labeled “idiopathic” now have a well-defined genetic basis; more will follow. Whereas it was once taboo to suggest that population ancestry-based genetic variation contributes to ethnic-specific risk for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), the identification of impressi...

Competency and common law: why and how decision-making capacity criteria should be drawn from the capacity-determination process.

Determining competence to request physician-assisted suicide should be no more difficult than determining competence to refuse life-prolonging treatment. In both cases, criteria and procedures should be developed out of the process of actually making capacity determinations; they should not be promulgated a priori. Because patient demeanor plays a critical role in capacity determinations, it sh...

Which Tissue Should Be Removed in Upper Blepharoplasty? Analysis and Evaluation of Satisfaction

BACKGROUND Due to various options for tissue resection and preoperative markings, many different reports on aesthetics and patient’s satisfaction exist. To assess differences among tissue resections and risk factors, we herein analyzed satisfaction levels of patients that underwent upper blepharoplasty. METHODS A retrospective analysis during the period from January 2006 to June 2013 w...