Living donor kidney transplantation is an amazing act of altruism that forever affects the life of the donor and that of the recipient and his or her family. Some of the greatest triumphs of modern surgery are associated with living donor transplantation. Those achievements result from a high degree of inspired and extremely diligent work by multidisciplinary medical teams and from the courage ...

A common strategy used to dismiss arguments against donor conception is that there is no proof donor-conceived persons are harmed in any important way. Their claims of harm are dismissed as anecdotal and "not scientific," and studies carried out on young donor-conceived children, who declare themselves perfectly happy with their parents and families are tendered as evidence that no harm is caus...

Introduction: Donor milk is a new emerging phenomenon in Iran and its banks are currently operating at a limited level. Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes toward this issue play a very important role in the adoption of human donor milk by families. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of nurses working in neonatal intensive care units   regarding the use of human donor...

This paper presents some central findings of an exploratory qualitative study of New Zealand families with children conceived by donor insemination (DI). Drawing on social anthropological and sociological theorising about kinship and contemporary Western families, the paper explores the ways in which parents and their kin actively construct parent-child relationships and kin connections through...

deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) has recently been introduced as an alternative procedure to penetrating keratoplasty (pk) for corneal pathologies not affecting the corneal endothelium. dalk does not rely on donor endothelium and requires less rigid criteria for donor corneal tissue quality. therefore, dalk makes it possible to use donor corneas deemed unsuitable for pk. furthermore, ...

Earlier proposed concepts for estimation of donor properties of solvents are briefly discussed and a comparison between some of the concepts is made for 53 solvents. The kind of solvents which can be regarded as strongly solvating are proposed for the further discussion. A comparison is also made of the solvation of typically soft and hard acceptors for a number of solvents. The solvation of un...