Between Scylla and Charybdis: charting an ethical course for research into financial incentives for living kidney donation.

Financial incentives for living kidney donation: ethics and evidence.

The widening gap between the number of donated kidneys and the need for kidney transplants has driven interest in incentivizing living kidney donation. Proposals to increase living kidney donation rates using financial incentives have generated vigorous ethical critiques, which can be placed into four categories: undue inducement, unjust inducement, crowding out of intrinsic motivation to donat...

Attitudes toward strategies to increase organ donation: views of the general public and health professionals.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The acceptability of financial incentives for organ donation is contentious. This study sought to determine (1) the acceptability of expense reimbursement or financial incentives by the general public, health professionals involved with organ donation and transplantation, and those with or affected by kidney disease and (2) for the public, whether financial incentives w...

Removing financial disincentives to organ donation: an acceptable next step?

The numbers are all too familiar, and are repeated so often in the arena of kidney disease that they start to lose meaning, becoming slightly hollow, empty, and spokenwith a feeling of resignation. There are.90,000 people on the kidney transplant waiting list and this number is growing. The number of kidney transplants performed annually is only one-fifth of the waiting list overall. The mortal...

The hypoxia-induced paralogs Scylla and Charybdis inhibit growth by down-regulating S6K activity upstream of TSC in Drosophila.

Diverse extrinsic and intrinsic cues must be integrated within a developing organism to ensure appropriate growth at the cellular and organismal level. In Drosophila, the insulin receptor/TOR/S6K signaling network plays a fundamental role in the control of metabolism and cell growth. Here we show that scylla and charybdis, two homologous genes identified as growth suppressors in an EP (enhancer...

Migration policies for a Romania within the European Union: Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis by Martin Baldwin-Edwards Migration policies for a Romania within the European Union: Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis