Background: Infertility is a complicated and psychologically threatening and challenging crisis. The rapid development of ART has raised many ethical and legal issues and lead to various emotional changes (anxiety, depression, stress, aggressiveness, etc.) as it may involve considerable time, expense, and loss of privacy. It can be both dangerous and expensive to enter the world of assisted rep...

background hospital personnel of services related to donation and transplantation process play a fundamental role in the development of transplantation. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the attitude toward living liver donation (lld) among hospital personnel from services related to donation and transplantation in hospital centers in spain and latin america. materials and met...

BACKGROUND To optimize the planning of blood donations but also to continue motivating the volunteers it is important to streamline the practical organization of the timing of donations. While donors are asked to return for donation after a suitable period, still a relevant proportion of blood donors is deferred from donation each year due to a too low hemoglobin level. Rejection of donation ma...

Many will agree that the use of laparoscopy to diagnose and potientially treat endometriosis in patients who suffer from infertility has been superseded by IVF and sometimes oocyte donation, especially in older patients. The findings of our study add another dimension to management of endometriosis in the setting of infertility and emphasize the importance of keeping laparoscopy in the infertil...

CONTEXT Limited studies, particularly in Australia, are aimed at understanding young people's beliefs about organ donation. Identification of such beliefs may serve to increase donation decision registration and decision discussion rates among this age cohort. OBJECTIVES To examine young adults' knowledge about organ donation and to use a theory of planned behavior framework to determine the ...