BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We conducted a longitudinal prospective study to assess the eligibility to blood donation of donors with 'minor' risk factors (i.e. minor surgery, professional exposure, cohabitation with 'high risk' people, occasional use of light drugs) or 'medium' risk factors for human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) infection (i.e. casual sexual relationship, multiple heterosexual e...

Deceased organ donation does not meet the need for kidney transplants. Thus, it is important to examine topics relevant to kidney donors such as communication leading to the donation decision and donor characteristics. This study reports personal characteristics and communication leading to the decision to donate among living kidney donors and a demographically matched quota sample. Donors had ...

Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid recipients until recently) may have competitive advantages in allocating aid according to need and merit...

Technological advances and the massive use of mobile devices have led to exponential evolution applications in health sector. Blood donation centers frequently suffer blood shortages due lack donations, which is why requests are seen on social networks for donors urgent need a transfusion specific group. Mobile crucial sector, since it allows communicate immediately coordinate with each other, ...

The shortage of organs has led centers to expand their criteria for the acceptance of marginal donors. The combination of multiple marginal factors seems to be additive on graft injury. In this review, the utility of various marginal donors in patients requiring liver transplantation will be described, including older donors, steatotic livers, non-heart-beating donors, donors with viral hepatit...