The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries’ economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the postCold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positive...

background: iron deficiency and its related anemia, which is the world’s most widespread nutritional deficiency, can be one of the possible consequences of regular blood donation. this research was carried out to compare iron stores in regular blood donors and first-time blood donors in tehran regional blood transfusion center. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 2,149 male blo...

results implementation of modern techniques of immune monitoring, allograft function, awareness about the specific infectious and non-infectious disease in each region improves the quality of renal transplantation. conclusions we need to combine the advance scientific vision with local vigilance to achieve the best outcome in renal allograft recipients evidence acquisitions in this process we s...

The safety of healthy peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donors receiving recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) is a topic that has received considerable attention in recent literature.1-3 The short-term adverse events related to both mobilization and collection as well as the problem of long-term safety monitoring have been discussed extensively, although the latter ...

This Ethics Committee report outlines the interests, obligations, and rights of the parties involved in gamete donation: both male and female donors who choose to provide gametes for use by others, recipients of donated gametes, and any offspring resulting from gamete donation. This document replaces the document "Interests, obligations, and rights of the donor in gamete donation," last publish...

The IRS recently rescinded a longstanding rule that required certain nonprofits to disclose substantial donor names and addresses on the nonprofit annual information return. This was mistake. Though remains for charities political organizations, collection of this non-publicly by is needed enforce tax-exempt requirements tax law generally social welfare organizations business leagues. It serves...

This paper examines the morality of schemes of payment to live donors/sellers of organs for transplantation. Following empirical and historical evidence, it is argued that consent to sell organs is substantially different from consent to ordinary business transactions and that legalization of exchanges of organs with financial benefits deviates significantly from the scope of liberal toleration...